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Jesus is Coming to that 
Great Meeting in the Air 



BY 

J. J. MORGAN 



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INTRODUCTION 

That our world is approaching a momentous crisis 
is believed by thoughtful men in all conditions of life. 
Intelligent and great divine, spiritual minds can not 
escape this conviction. There may be difference of 
opinion as to how near the crisis may be, also as to 
just how it will be ushered in and as to many of its 
final consequences, but many or nearly all are agreed 
that events of unprecedented importance are impend- 
ing and the social order existing now is likely to be 
revolutionized. 

The prophets of God in all ages have foreseen and 
foretold the dawn of the Golden Age and the ultimate 
establishment of the Kingdom of God in visible glory 
upon the earth, the universal triumphant righteousness 
in this world and as a result of the spiritual trans- 
formation poor humanity will be delivered from the 
bondage of corruption into a glorious liberty of the 
children of God. 

The conviction is also growing among thinking men 
that the approach of that Golden Age which has been 
the dream of poets and visions of devout prophets 
through the ages, is not such a far off divine event 



some would like to have it, but that it is ever im- 
minent, likely to occur at any time. According to the 
Scriptures the dawning of the age so long foretold by 
prophecy and so long hoped for by devout men in all 
the world awaits the return of Jesus Christ to our 
earth to consummate His redemption purposes and to 
gather in the final harvest of His redeeming work in 
this world. 

NOTES FROM JESSE FOREST SILVERS ON THE 
SCRIPTURES— LORD'S RETURN, P. 9 

Jesus ascended to Heaven; His disciples saw Him 
go ; while they beheld He was taken up and a CLOUD 
received Him out of their sight (Acts 1:9). Not a rain 
cloud, but it is a cloud of ANGELS, and where this 
word is used in all the meetings of Jesus in the air 
and a cloud received Him out of their sight, etc. Jesus 
will return. To lone disciples gazing upward, ANGELS 
SPEAK THESE PRECIOUS WORDS, "THIS SAME 
JESUS WHICH IS TAKEN FROM YOU INTO 
HEAVEN SHALL COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE 
HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.' ' (Acts 
1:11.) In the Scriptures it is written, "I will return/ ' 
(Acts 15:16.) Jesus said to His disciples, "I will come 
again/ ' (John 14-31.) 



We know how a fond and affectionate maiden looks 
seaward to watch for a ship's return. We have seen 
how grateful nations have welcomed their heroes 
home; even so come Lord Jesus (Rev. 22:20). The 
people of God are deeply interested in the coming 
back to earth of Him who sweat great drops of blood 
under the olive trees of old Gethsemane and stained 
the stones of Calvary with blood from His broken 
heart that He might save their souls from the bitter 
pangs of eternal death. While the day and hour of 
the Lord's return is not revealed to enquiring man, 
the leading missionaries and evangelists of the world 
believe the time is drawing near. 

A proud and stately SHIP speeds onward in dark- 
ness and a gay and thoughtless multitude revels in 
peace and safety while sudden destruction lies 
ahead. God help us to sound a faithful warning and 
push to the rescue of perishing souls. The time is 
short. 

NOTES BY THE COMPILER 

I trust the Holy Spirit has prompted me in pre- 
paring this work on a subject dear to all who love 
the Lord and His appearing. For fifteen years or 
more the thought of looking into the prophecy and try- 



ing to find out about where we as a people stood along 
the line of prophecy ; and God has put it into my heart 
to compile this little work and have it published for the 
glory of His cause, and it has fallen on me to witness 
to the world and tell what I have found in my studies, 
and not only tell it but publish it, so it may do good 
after I am gone, and I think this really is the grandest 
and greatest literature ever collected and written, and 
I hope the reader will read it with all confidence, as I 
have taken the most of it from Dr. Godby, Wheeden, 
Glasco, and many other great, godly, spiritual Bible 
scholars. You will notice most all of it refers you to 
the Bible. 

I have added some thoughts in a few places in this 
work and my opinion is that no mind could over color 
the heavenly glory of Jesus' millennial kingdom and 
the eternal heavens, and the glory and reward for 
those that overcometh all things by the grace of God. 

This work has now been completed. Patience and 
research and earnest prayers and gracious blessing 
from the Holy Spirit have enabled me to accomplish 
and compile this grand heavenly work. 

WITHOUT MONEY OR WITHOUT PRICE I pre- 
sent this work to my Friends. 



I HERE wish TO tender my sincere THANKS to 
the young lady, Miss Watrous, who worked so faithfully 
and so patiently typewriting this book. May God 
BLESS HER, and my PRAYER IS that she might 
have a right to the great meeting with Jesus in the 
air. J. J. MORGAN. 



JESUS IS COMING TO THAT GREAT 
MEETING IN THE AIR 



Jesus is Coming to that Great 
Meeting in the Air 



Book I. 



THE FIRST RESURRECTION 

These Scripture lessons commence away back in the 
long, long ago, and reaches out and out ; away back in 
God's infinite fathomless depths of his eternal crea- 
tion, away back there in the dawn of creation before 
the morning stars sang together, and the Sons of God 
shouted for joy before the foundation of the world 



16 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

was laid, and the lessons also pass through the Angelic 
probation, sweeping on with prophetic inspiration and 
showing us about where we stand along the prophetic 
line, and the Rapture period when Christ will come in 
the clouds with power and great glory. 

THE MILLENNIAL, SHOWING STATE and POS- 
SIBLE CONDITION of the PEOPLE and the WORLD 
DURING THE MILLENNIAL PERIOD. THE CRE- 
MATION OF THE WORLD; A RE-CREATION OF 
THE WORLD; MADE OVER, NEW, and on and on 
until time and ETERNITY has COME and GONE in 
the BYGONE AGES of GOD'S FATHOMLESS BIL- 
LOWS of ETERNITIES of ETERNITIES. 

We have this work divided into five SCRIPTURE 
LESSONS. The first takes in the MORNING of 
CREATION; the ANGELS in a PROBATIONARY 
STATE; SATAN in his ORIGINAL STATE before 
the FALL, SATAN and his ANGELS FALL: THE 
ANTEDILUVIAN AGES up to CHRIST'S ADVENT 
into the WORLD. 

NUMBER TWO reaches from the time of CHRIST 
to the RAPTURE PERIOD, that GREAT MEETING 
in the AIR. 



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NUMBER THREE takes in the GREAT TRIBU- 
LATION. 

NUMBER FOUR takes in the GLORIOUS MIL- 
LENNIAL KINGDOM, PARADISIAL STATE of this 
WORLD; showing conditions during the MILLEN- 
NIAL PERIOD. 

NUMBER FIVE shows the HEAVENLY STATE 
of this WORLD after the CREMATION; the NEW 
HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH. 

NOTES BY THE COMPILER 

We start out in God's prophetic mysteries of His 
infinite fathomless future. Away back there in the 
long, long ago, before the morning stars sang to- 
gether and before the foundation of the world was 
laid when God's great creative universe was in its 
swaddling clothes, before the fall of the angels, when 
all created intelligence, that is, the angels, were in a 
probationary state. Satan in his unfallen state was 
one of the brightest and most intellectual of all cre- 
ated intelligences and doubtless had been present 
and perhaps performed some important offices in the 
creation of the world and many other celestial bodies 
in God's great celestial universe. Before the fall, 



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Satan's heavenly name was Lucifer; as the name 
Lucifer is a Latin compound word and means " Light 
bearer." Satan brought about wonderful confusion 
in heaven by accusing the angels falsely day and 
night. 

Rev. 2:7-13: "And there was war in heaven: 
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; 
and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed 
not; neither was their place found any more in 
heaven. 

And the great dragon was cast out that old ser- 
pent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth 
the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and 
his angels were cast out with him. 

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is 
come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our 
God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of 
our brethren is cast down, which accused them be- 
fore our God day and night. 

The prophetic drama that St. John describes in 
Revelations is repeated; but not like the four gospels 
of the New Testament as each one of the four apostles 
wrote the gospel of Jesus Christ in his own way as 



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though no one else but he was writing it. All four 
and each separately telling the same story of what he 
heard and saw. 

St. John banished on a lonely Isle called Patmos. 
While in the spirit on the Lord's day God opened a 
door in heaven and an angel showed John the won- 
derful heavenly drama that no MORTAL EYE ever 
beheld BEFORE; of the wonderful things and events 
of the future; of things that were coming to pass. 

The number Seven is intertwined all the way 
through St. John's wonderful heavenly visions in 
Revelations and many of the wonderful visions John 
describes in Revelations is repeated seven times, and 
laps backwards and forwards. Seven is the number 
constantly used to symbolize Christ and denotes per- 
fection; and the number seven is certainly the key- 
note in the great prophetic drama in Revelations. 

Rev. 1:4. John to the SEVEN CHURCHES, 
SEVEN SPIRITS. Rev. 1:12. SEVEN GOLDEN 
CANDLESTICKS. Rev. 1:16. "And he had in his 
right hand SEVEN STARS." Rev. 4:5. SEVEN 
LAMPS. Rev. 5:1. The book of SEVEN SEALS. 
Rev. 5:6. Lamb with SEVEN HORNS and SEVEN 
EYES. Rev. 8:2. SEVEN TRUMPETS. Rev. 10:4. 



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SEVEN THUNDERS. Rev. 13:3. SEVEN HEADS. 
Rev. 17. SEVEN VIALS; SEVEN KINGS. Rev. 18. 
SEVEN MOUNTAINS. Rev. 21:9. SEVEN last 
PLAGUES. 

NOTES FROM REV. W. B. GODBEY, D. D. 
COMMENTS ON REV. CHAPTER I 

The Ages 

The Antediluvian Ages have come and gone. The 
Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Prophetical Ages have all 
come and gone. The Jewish Age and Dispensation 
closed with the destruction of Jerusalem. The 
Father's Dispensation lasted four thousand years; 
that of the Son, during His incarnate minis- 
try; and that of the Holy Ghost, from Pen- 
tecost to the second advent. So we are now 
living, not only in the last dispensation (that is) that 
of the Gentiles, the Holy Ghost, and the Church — but, 
as we will show you we are right at the end of that 
dispensation. John warned the people: "The time 
is at hand." Oh, how much more pertinent to ring 
out the warning now, as we are eighteen hundred 
years nearer than the generation in which John lived ! 



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Good Lord, help us to sound the alarm and wake up 
a slumbering world and a dead Church. 

These Scriptures, and others innumerable, confirm 
the conclusion that we are living in the last age, 
which is to be followed, not by the extermination 
of this earth, but by the glorious kingdom of our 
descended Lord. For this long anticipated and prayed 
for Millennial reign all the bygone ages were succes- 
sive preparations. Our Savior came to destroy the 
works of the devil, which are sin, and restore this 
world to its Edenic state. 

The Rapture. This word * 'rapture' ' means taking 
up, and it designates the Lord's deliverance of his 
saints from the great tribulation. Paul says posi- 
tively that He will bring with Him those who sleep 
in Jesus. This can not mean spiritual sleep, but must 
mean the sleep of the body in the grave. Therefore, 
the Lord must come after them in order to have them 
to bring with Him when He comes to reign. 1 John 
2:28, "Nov/ little children, abide in Him, in order 
that, when He may appear, we may have boldness, 
and not shrink with embarrassment from Him in His 
presence/ ' In this letter John teaches that we must 
have perfect love, which casts out fear and takes away 



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our embarrassment, and prepares us to meet our com- 
ing Lord with joy. WHEN shall we expect our Savior 
to come and take away His bride, raising the sainted 
dead and translating the living saints? Now, all the 
New Testament certifies over and over that we are 
in the last age preceding the coming kingdom. We 
are not only in the last age, but rapidly approaching 
the end of the Gentile Age. 

THE GREAT EVANGELIST JOHN E. BROWN, 

says, " Jesus has been, was and will ever be the Friend 
of the Human Family. He came into this world with 
wisdom Omnicient, with power Omnipotent. He came 
to set the captives free. 

The Devil has been, was and ever will be the Enemy 
of the Human Family, with wisdom Omnicient, with 
power Omnipotent and with the utmost cunning he 
goes about setting his snares; setting amongst these 
snares temptations that blind; and once they are in 
the toils of the evil one it takes no prophet to tell 
what the end will be." The Devil is as much a 
person as God Himself. The Bible teaches that there 
is a personal God, one who loves and helps you; and 
a personal devil who hates you ; and the Bible teaches 



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those two facts just as definitely as it teaches any- 
thing* in the world. 

The Devil is Mighty; God is Almighty. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY COMMEN- 
TARY, REV., CHAPTER IX 

Doubtless all created intelligence was originally pro- 
bationers. Unfortunately Lucifer with many others 
forfeited his probation and was cast out. Presump- 
tively the probation on these celestial worlds has 
already expired while we are still in probation. 

From this fatal apostasy originated all Sin, Evil, 
Death, Curses, Lies and all the evil spirits of the earth 
and hell. They not only throng the dark pandemon- 
ium but for wise purposes connected with our proba- 
tion are permitted to interpenetrate our atmosphere 
enveloping this earth; coming in contact with human 
spirits, tempting and trying and trying them in every 
conceivable way. 

REV., CHAPTER 1 

Matt. 24:27: "For as the lightning cometh from 
the East and appeareth even unto the West so shall 
be the coming of the Son of Man." 



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Hence, we see that the light of his glorified person 
will flash round the world and affright the slumber- 
ing millions now resting in carnal security throughout 
every nation under heaven. Appalled and panic- 
stricken they will howl out one universal wail at Him. 

"May the Lord anoint your eyes that you may 
see, your ears that you may hear the voice of your 
ascended Lord from the skies; Awake, my Beloved, 
wash and dress, for I am coming/ ' 

NOTES BY COMPILER 

Luke 24: "Behold my hands and feet that it is I 
myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh 
and bones as ye see me have." 

NOTES TAKEN FROM THE GREAT EVANGELIST 
PAUL RADER— COMMENTS AND SERMONS 

As the body of our Lord lay in the tomb I am confi- 
dent that all hell held a high jubilee, but on the third 
day God breathed into that sleeping clay and he arose 
and there was consternation in hell. 

Matt. 28: "Behold there was a great earthquake, 
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and 
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upon it. His countenance was like lightning and his 
raiment white as snow." 

The great Evangelist Rader says, "When God's 
Holy Angels came down and rolled the great stone 
off from the tomb and Jesus came out gloriously 
resurrected, that the tomb looked like a great MOUTH 
laughing at death. The mouth said, ' Oh death where 
is thy sting, Oh grave where is thy victory.' " 

REVELATION 

This is a Greek word. Translated it means the 
REVELMENT of Christ in his literal glorified per- 
sonal manhood back to this world. 

DR. GODBEY NOTES 

The Theocracy 

This word means the government of God. It was 
the original economy, prevalent in Eden till the Fall. 
It was revived in a modified sense, after the Pall. 
Almost totally eclipsed ere long by the wickedness of 
the Antediluvians, it received the grand impetus in 
the divine intervention of the flood, sweeping osten- 
sible rebellion out of the world and leaving a solitary 
righteous family to re-people the earth. 



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But remember, God's plans never fail. Human and 
diabolical rebellion may interrupt and postpone them ; 
but omnipotence in due time will sweep away all the 
fabrication of men and devils and perfect his plans to 
the admiration of Saints and Angels. 

REV., CHAPTER XIX 

We find "Amen" and "Hallelujah" are the battle- 
shouts which everywhere ring along the triumphant 
phalanx of Immanuel's army. These are Hebrew 
words, which have never been translated into any of 
the innumerable languages into which the Bible has 
been translated. Just as they are, they have been 
transferred into more than one hundred languages. 
A ship was under sail on the Pacific Ocean, carrying 
a Hindoo and a New Zealander. The latter is a con- 
vert of the Salvation Army, and the former of Bishop 
Taylor's missionaries. They are in prayer. The Hin- 
doo receives a landslide from the heavenly country, 
and shouts aloud, "Hallellujah!" The New Zealander 
shouts back, "Amen!" Neither knows a word of the 
other's language. Anon they reciprocate, "Hallelu- 
jah!" "Amen!" Soon the strangers mutually em- 
brace. 



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Noah's family, the elect of the Old World, went up 
in the Ark, escaping the doom of the antediluvians. 
So will the Lord's truly sanctified people go up in the 
cloud gloriously delivered from the doom of the 
wicked. 

As were the days of Noah so shall be the coming 
of the Son of Man. For they were eating and drink- 
ing, marrying and giving in marriage in the days 
before the Flood till Noah entered the Ark. 

When the SONS of GOD, many commentaters say, 
(Seth's children) saw the Daughters of men that they 
were fair, they took them for wives. Then wickedness 
increased to an alarming rate, and they became mighty 
men ; old men of renown. 

And God saw the wickedness of man and that it 
was great on the earth; and that every imagination 
and thought of his heart was only evil continually. 

Gen. 6-1. Dr. Torrey says: To interpret Scripture 
by Scripture, the SONS of GOD mentioned above seems 
rather to have been ANGELIC BEINGS. Refers to 
Jude 6. We are told angels which kept not their own 
principality but left their proper habitation and were 
kept in everlasting chains in darkness unto the Judg- 



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ment of the great day, also Sodom and Gomorrah com- 
mitted the same sins. SEE DR. TORREY'S DIFFICUL- 
TIES in the BIBLE, pages 120-121. 

NOTE BY COMPILER 

Dr. Godbey says: "It is my honest conviction that 

this wonderful and incorrigible nightmare on human 

conscience, the summary of all political intrigue, will 

run on till the Lord comes to take away His bride/ ' 

NOTES TAKEN BY COMPILER FROM MATT. 25 
OF THE TEN VIRGINS 

REPRESENTS THE RAPTURE PERIOD WHEN 
CHRIST COMES TO MAKE UP HIS JEWELS. THAT 
MEETING IN THE AIR AND ALSO FURNISHES 
MATERIAL THAT REPRESENTS CHRISTY GLO- 
RIOUS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. 

Matt. 25. "Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be 
likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and 
went forth to meet the bridegroom; and five of them 
were wise, and five were foolish. They that were fool- 
ish took their lamps, and took no oil with them; but 
the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and 
slept; and at midnight there was a cry made, Behold 




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the bridegroom cometh, Go ye out to meet HIM; "YOU 
SEE THERE WILL BE SOMEBODY AWAKE. JESUS, 
OUR SAVIORS GREAT WATCHER, THE HOLY 
SPIRIT IS THE ONE WHO WILL MAKE THE 
CALL." Jesus has chosen to liken the Rapture period 
when He comes to make up His jewels and His Glorious 
millennial kingdom to, the ten virgins, and as a parable 
I do not think he could have found anything better in 
all God's universe, and I think the glorious Creator 
centered all his creative genius powers on that most 
beautiful creature, the virgin, the helpmate of man, 
God's gift to man. The female human being with her 
heart and soul filled with the holy spirit is certainly 
the highest pinnacle of all of God's creation in this 
world. God made man in His own image and likeness, 
then improved on him by making woman. Certainly 
the female element is the refining element of the human 
family; this is the reason it looks so much worse for 
her than men, when they loose their refinement and 
modesty. This something called Modesty and Refine- 
ment all women folks should guard and protect; that 
beautiful prize, God's glorious gift to the human race, 
equal to the Apple of her life or her life. 



30 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Now let us look at those five wise virgins from an 
artistic view point of this world, then again from a spir- 
itual conception of heavenly symbols as are found in 
this parable. First see how they appear and look. They 
are rather tall, but shapely, and perfectly formed, in 
stature, shape and size and comely. They have queenly 
shaped heads with long beautiful hair, with a girlish 
toss over their shoulders, fixed with a beautiful band of 
some white material around the head. They have large 
sparkling eyes which scatter delight. Their faces, with 
fine features, and with a Halo on their countenance. 
They are dressed in a loose, long white garment, as 
white as snow, plain but spotless white, with sandals 
on their feet. They are queenly in every particular and 
modest to a fault, with glorified intelligence. Their 
eyes and countenance are sparkling with the love of 
Jesus. Their vessels are their hearts filled with the oil 
cf gladness, which is the Holy Spirit. They have their 
lamps ready and waiting for the bridegroom, and they 
were waiting and watching, waiting and watching, so 
long that they slumbered and slept and there was a 
cry at midnight, " Behold the bridegroom cometh, go 
ye out to meet him." 



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The five foolish virgins are the twentieth century 
nominal pleasure loving, pleasure seeking church mem- 
bers, but they are also fine girls. They have been born 
again of the spirit. They are dressed fine, with highly 
colored silk dresses, high buttoned shoes, and are equal 
physically to the wise virgins. They are of the wealth- 
iest class. They are very intelligent but like worldly 
pleasures. They are not expecting the bridegroom so 
soon. They intended to get the Holy Spirit in their 
hearts and try to keep him there but they think there 
will be plenty of time. However, they like the com- 
pany of the wise virgins and love to be with them but 
haven't got their hearts filled with the oil of gladness 
or the Holy Spirit. 

JESUS' WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL ALLEGORY 
OF THE TEN VIRGINS PARABLE was without doubt 
intended to represent the entire Christian world and the 
figure is to convey the fact that they were a select 
representative body, and by our Lord taking ten vir- 
gins for a representation of the Rapture period and of 
His millennial kingdom would show how beautiful, how 
cheerful, how virtuous and glorious will be His mil- 
lennial kingdom. 



32 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

As the wise virgins are Christ's jewels that will be 
caught up to meet the Lord in the air when the watch- 
er's cry is made at midnight. They represent all the 
Godly people of the world that have the Holy Spirit 
and the five foolish virgins will go through the Tribula- 
tion and many of them become martyrs for Jesus and 
will come through into the millennial kingdom. These 
foolish virgins represent all the Christian world that is 
left on the earth after the Salt of the earth is taken in 
the Rapture period. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY COMMENTS 
ON REV., CHAPTER XI 

The momentous issues predicted in all the later-day 
prophecies belong to the third woe, and will take 
place during the seventh trumpet. You see unmistak- 
ably, from the above quotations, that every human 
government on the globe, both political and ecclesi- 
astical, is to be turned over to the Lord Jesus Christ 
when He comes to reign. Two hundred millions of 
martyrs have sealed their faith with their blood. All 
their prayers for deliverance, victory, and the triumph 
of truth and righteousness in the world, are going to 
be answered. They will be rewarded with a place in 
the first resurrection, and receive kingdoms and 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 33 

crowns as the faithful subordinates of the reigning 
Christ in the coming millennium. The popular idea 
that the wicked multitudes will be converted during 
the Gospel Age is unscriptural. They may be saved, 
if they will: but there is the trouble. They love sin 
too much to give it up. Jesus says, "the saved are 
few," while the multitude travels the broad road. In 
the Jerusalem Council the end for which the gospel is 
sent into the world is defined: "To gather out of all 
nations a people unto the Lord." 

The wonderful prophecies about a nation being 
born in a day belong to the millennial period. As 
above quoted, these people who reject the gospel, and 
destroy the prosperity and happiness of the earth by 
their wickedness are not to be converted, but de- 
stroyed. The rulers of the world, political and eccle- 
siastical, with millions who sycophantize them into 
office, would not let the Lord reign, if He were to 
come down today on His millennial throne. 

Therefore, when He comes and takes His blood- 
washed bride out of the world, the Ancient of Days 
will descend (Dan. 7:9), encumber His castigatory 
judgment-throne, and enter into righteous judgment 
with all the wicked nations and fallen Churches of 



34 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

the earth. He said to His Son: "Sit Thou on my 
right hand until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.' ' 
Hence you see the invisible Father will descend and 
sit in judgment on all the powers of the earth, polit- 
ical and ecclesiastical, and administer to them the 
just reward of their rebellion, maladministration, 
high-handed iniquities, vices, and crimes, till the 
sweeping catastrophes of the great tribulation shall 
remove from the earth the unsaveable, incorrigible 
population. Dan. 7:13, 14, reveals the "Son of Man" 
coming down on His millennial throne to take posses- 
sion of this world, immediately after the Father has 
prepared the way by His pre-millennial judgments. 
The very fact that the Holy Spirit says that the Son 
of Man shall come and reign on the earth forever 
beautifully corroborates Acts 1:11: "This same Jesus 
whom you saw ascend up to heaven, will also come 
again in like manner as ye saw Him go into heaven." 
When Jesus gave us the commission, He said, "Lo, 
I am with you alway, even unto the end of the age." 
Hence we see that the God-Christ is with us through- 
out the Gospel Age; but the man-Christ has not been 
on earth since his ascension from Mt. Olivet. Zech- 
ariah 12:4 says: "His feet shall stand in that day 
upon the Mount of Olives.' ' 



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NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REV., CHAPTER 1 

The Millennial reign will be the final restoration of 
the Theocracy in its Edenic splendor and glory, never 
again to go into eclipse, but to brighten in the sweep 
of a thousand years, accumulate new luster in Satan's 
post-millennial defeat and ejection into the lake of 
fire, brighten through the final judgment, earth's fiery 
sanctification and final celestialization, and sweep on 
through all eternity — the bliss of glorified saints and 
the joy of angels, archangels, cherubim and seraphim. 

TIME OF THE END 

While it is positively revealed that no one is to 
know the day of His coming, yet it is positively cer- 
tified that the Lord's true people are to know the 
time of the end. 

REV. CHAPTER XIV 

Matt. 24: 30, 31: "Then shall the sign of the Son 
of man appear in the skies, then shall all the tribes of 
the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man 
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great 
glory. And he shall send forth His angels with a great 
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His 



36 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to 
the other." 

As Daniel and John did not live in the time of the 
end, they did not know it. Daniel was terribly 
grieved because he did not know it; but God said 
to him (12:9) "Go thy way; close up the vision and 
seal the book till the time of the end. Many shall 
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." 
We are now living in that period. Many are running 
to and fro, and spreading abroad the knowledge of 
the Lord's speedy coming. Thus you may rest assured 
that we are living in the time of the end, and the 
coming of the Lord is nigh. If John had preached 
and withheld his testimony, he might have stayed in 
Rome. We must not only preach the word straight 
and clear, but constantly corroborate it by our testi- 
mony. In that case the blessing of persecution will 
not be delinquent. 

As John arrived in Patmos late Saturday evening, 
spent the night in prayer, with the opening Sunday 
morning, the glorified Savior came down, opened 
heaven to his vision, and revealed the wonderful 
prophetical panorama. Why is our Sabbath the first 
day of the week? We see here the apostles kept the 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 37 

first day, and, because of its sanctity, called it the 
Lord's day. 

The golden candlestick symbolizes a Church full of 
Holy Ghost religion, in which the Holy Ghost Himself 
is the light. Here we have a glorious description of 
the glorified Savior as He walks amid the golden 
candlesticks. 

" Clothed with a garment down to the foot and 
girded about the waist with a golden girdle.' ' This 
is a description of His priestly regalia, as our Savior 
is Prophet, Priest, and King. As Prophet, He teaches 
us; as Priest He atones for all our sins; as King, He 
rules us forever. During His earthly mission, He 
served mankind as Prophet, and was a most inde- 
fatigable preacher. He is now exercising His priestly 
office at the Father's right hand in heaven. He will 
soon come down with His mighty angels and trans- 
figured saints to set up His kingdom on the earth and 
reign forever. 

"His head and His hands were white as wool, white 
as snow. ' ' This clause describes His antiquity, setting 
forth the fact that He is uncreated, and has existed 
from all eternity. "His eyes are as a flame of fire." 
This certifies His omniscience. The eye is the great 



38 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

receptacle of knowledge, and symbolizes all the senses. 

"His feet were like unto brass.' ' This clause de- 
scribes our Savior's immutability, revealing the fact 
that He never changes, but is the same unutterable 
love, omniscient wisdom, and superabounding grace, 
yesterday, today, and forever. "His voice as the 
sound of many waters." This reveals His awful de- 
nunciation of sin. The artillery on every battlefield, 
the roaring thunder, the mighty tread of the hurri- 
cane, the sweep of the cyclone, the shock of the earth- 
quake, and the bitter wail of the earth's suffering 
millions, articulate our Savior's warning voice against 
sin, doom, and damnation. 

"Having in His right hand seven stars." These 
stars are the faithful preachers of the gospel. So, if 
you want to be a star preacher, be sure the Savior 
holds you in His right hand. If you preach the truth, 
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, fearless 
of men and devils, regardless of reputation, filthy 
lucre, ejectment, and decapitation, rest assured Jesus 
will hold you in His right hand, and you will have 
the victory when the world is on fire. 

"Out of His mouth goes a sharp, two-edged sword." 
This is the word of God revealed in the Bible. This 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 39 

wonderful sword has two edges, sharp as God's light- 
ning, i. e., the salvation edge and the damnation edge. 
If you receive the salvation edge, and permit it radi- 
cally and intrinsically to dissect the soul, spirit, heart, 
mind, and body, it will cut out every fibre of sin's 
warp and woof, actual and original, and effect a com- 
plete purgation from iniquity, investing you with the 
spotless robe of entire sanctification, and actually lead- 
ing you out into the heavenly state, ready, watching 
and waiting for the Lord to descend, translate and 
take you up into the cloud. 

If you prove too cowardly to receive the salvation 
edge, and let it cut out of you all sin, you will have 
to take the damnation edge, which will cut all your 
hopes out of heaven. "His countenance appears as 
the sun in His power." John 1:9: "He is the true 
light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the 
world." Thus we see that the world's Savior shines 
on every human soul. Hence Paul says even the 
heathen are left without excuse (Rom. 1:20). John 
says if v/e walk in the light, the blood cleanseth from 
all sin. Here is solved the problem of universal sal- 
vation. As the sun sends his light throughout the 
whole world, so the glorious Sun of righteousness 



40 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

illuminates the spiritual world, giving to every hu- 
man being — saint, sinner, heathen, Jew, and Moham- 
medan — all the light they need to lead them to heaven. 
If they will only walk in all the light they have, His 
blood will cleanse them from all sin, and robe them 
for glory. 

"I have the keys of death and Hades/ ' Here we 
see that no person can die until God permits. People 
vainly talk about a Christian dying unsanctified. Such 
a thing never occurs. From the moment of your con- 
version, the holy Sanctifier is with you, holding the 
keys of death and Hades. He will not permit death 
to touch you till He finishes His work in your entire 
sanctification, which He can do in the twinkling of 
an eye IF YOU ARE TRUE TO JESUS. If you will 
not permit Him to sanctify you, but grieve Him away, 
you become a backslider, and drop into hell. 

Do not understand by the above notes that every one 
that is converted will be sanctified whether they live 
a true Christian life or not. This means when they live 
a true Christian life — Dr. Godbey must mean Christian 
when he says one cannot die till God permits. 



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NOTES BY COMPILER 

Hades is a compound Greek word, meaning unseen 
world, and including both heaven and hell. Gehenna 
is the Greek word which always means hell, and noth- 
ing else. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMEN- 
TARY ON REV., CHAPTER 11 
P. 33-34 

THE ECCLESIASTICAL CLIMAX 

These seven churches, in their historic succession, 
set forth in vivid climax the visible Church, from the 
Apostolic Age to the Millennial reign. Ephesus, with 
its transcendent orthodoxy, though actually backslid- 
den, condemned, and fallen from the kingdom, emble- 
matizes the general Church in the post-Apostolic Age, 
when she was rapidly sidetracking from the glorious 
experience of entire sanctification which shook the 
world with the tread of a thousand earthquakes, and 
interpenetrated all nations during the Apostolic Age. 

Smyrna was a little, dirty village, under the shadow 
of the great metropolitan Church at Ephesus. How 
striking the fact that the Holy Ghost adduces not a 
solitary charge against this Church! Though poor, 



42 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

illiterate, obscure, and unknown, she walked with God 
in white, her garments unsullied. This Church rep- 
resents the people of God during the age of pagan 
persecutions, which began under Nero and ceased 
under Diocletian, including a period of three hundred 
years, during which one hundred millions of Christians 
sealed their faith with their blood. Last summer I 
visited the Coliseum in Rome, where one hundred 
thousand cruel heathen men and women assembled 
nightly for three hundred years, to see the lions eat 
up the Christians. 

I visited the old judgment-hall, where Nero sat 
upon his tribunal, and condemned Paul to decapita- 
tion and Peter to crucifixion. I saw the gloomy old 
Mamertine prison, where Paul was incarcerated. Then 
I followed him out through the west gate to the spot 
where the Roman soldiers cut off his head. I also 
followed Peter to the Campus Martius, where he was 
crucified with his head down. 

REVELATION, CHAPTER IV— P. 43 

Paul speaks of the third heaven. The firmament 
enveloping this earth is the first heaven, the astro- 
nomical universe is the second heaven, and the home 
of the glorified saints and angels, in the presence of 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 43 

God, is the third heaven. The Apostle John stands 
on the lonely isle. After a night of prayer, he lifts 
up his eyes, looks through a door opened in the firma- 
ment, and contemplates the wonders of the Apoca- 
lyptic visions. 

REVELATION, CHAPTER VI— P. 60 

Oh, how rapidly is the Holy Ghost everywhere open- 
ing and revealing these wonderful latter-day prophe- 
cies to His holy people! The rapture of the bride, 
accompanied by the resurrection of the buried saints, 
and the translation of the living, will call Daniel from 
the dust, to stand in his lot; i. e., and see the literal 
fulfillment of the mighty wonders whose prophetic 
vision caused him to faint and fall as a dead man. 
Doubtless, the tribulation period will be characterized 
quite extensively by earthquakes and other noted phy- 
sical phenomena. 

NOTES TAKEN PROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XII— P. 135 

We learn here that Satan, from his apostasy has 
been the accuser of the brethren, as he wickedly and 
falsely maligned the innocent angels before the Al- 
mighty, thus filling heaven with confusion till he 



44 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

was cast out. So he has indefatigably pursued that 
course on earth. Martin Luther says he appeared 
before him in an embodied form, held up for his in- 
spection the long, dark catalogue of his sins, and 
assured Luther that they were too great to ever be 
forgiven; but when he approached the devil and wrote 
beneath that long, black catalogue, "The blood of 
Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin," Satan cow- 
ardly fled away. 

In Nehemiah we have the scene of Joshua, the high 
priest, standing before God in polluted apparel, and 
Satan standing at his right hand, relentlessly accus- 
ing him, and pretentiously vindicating the divine glory 
with wonderful assiduity, persistently berating the 
impudent presumption of Joshua to think the aggra- 
vated and persistent idolatry of Israel could be for- 
given consistently with the purity and glory of the 
divine sovereignty. In the midst of Satan's accusa- 
tions, a bright angel sweeps down from heaven, strips 
Joshua of his soiled garments, which symbolized Isra- 
el's sins, and invests him with shining robes, white 
as snow. At this moment the devil takes his flight. 

Satan upsets more Christians in this way than any 
other; i. e., by holding up the dark columns of their 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 45 

flagrant sins for their contemplation. Though these 
sins have already been forgiven, if Satan can get you 
to look at them in the absence of the cross, he will 
first inject discouragement, then doubt, and finally 
throw his black wing over you, dragging you into 
apostasy and damnation. Oh, how Satan, by this 
stratagem, tilts over the sanctified! Introspection is 
good and helpful, if you will always see your old, dark 
depravity under the blood. But Satan will try to 
get you to look at the old rattlesnake den of diabol- 
ical passions and lust in the absence of the blood. 
If you let him play that stratagem on you, he will 
down you every time. 

"They conquer him through the blood of the Lamb, 
and through the word of their testimony, and they 
loved not their lives unto death." Amid all the de- 
vices of Satan, you should constantly keep your eye 
on the blood. If you ever persistently introspect your 
own heart in the absence of Jesus and the blood, you 
will be in imminent danger of getting into darkness 
and trouble. Satan will do his utmost to absorb all 
your attention in the contemplation of your sins, so 
you will have none for Jesus and the blood. Besides, 
he will magnify your little innocent infirmities which 



46 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

are not removed in sanctification, but remain till you 
are glorified, when the soul leaves the body. This 
glorification not only sweeps away all your infirmities, 
but confers on you angelic perfection, in which you 
live in heaven forever. Satan's fond caprice is to 
magnify these infirmities into mountains of sin, and 
get you to look at them instead of keeping your eye 
on Jesus and the blood. Remember, as this verse says, 
You conquer all of your sins by the blood and defeat 
the devil by your testimony. If you permit your tes- 
timony to flicker, the devil will get the advantage of 
you, discourage, weaken, and ruin you. Your heart 
is for Jesus; you give it to Him and keep it in His 
possession by faith. 

Hence, your consecration and faith are for God; but 
your testimony is for the devil. In this way you get 
the victory and keep him off of you. Did the angels 
in heaven need the blood of Jesus to conquer the 
devil? Heb. 9:23: It was therefore necessary that 
the patterns of things in the heavens should be puri- 
fied with these; but the heavenly things themselves 
with better sacrifices than these." Here is a contrast 
between the sacrifices of the Levitical law and that of 
Christ. We see in this Scripture that all heaven 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 47 

needed the purgation which Jesus brought in by His 
expiatory death. At that time the inhabitants of the 
heavenly worlds were on probation (which has doubt- 
less expired). The irregularity of Lucifer's insurrec- 
tion was felt and recognized throughout the celestial 
empire. 

Christ was the Michael who then led the embattled 
host to victory in the ejection of Satan and all of his 
followers out of the celestial worlds. But this would 
not suffice. The Divine government must be perfectly 
vindicated and order restored. Hence, then and there 
the foundation of the redemption scheme was laid, 
Christ having volunteered to take the trouble into 
hand, prosecute the war against sin and Satan to the 
bitter end, exterminate the malady, completely expur- 
gating all worlds by His precious blood, thus in the 
Finale restoring perfect order and eternal loyalty 
throughout the universe. 

In the economy of the fullness of the times to re- 
veal all things in Christ, both the things which are 
in the heavens and the things which are on the earth 
were even in Him. 

The word " heaven' ' in your Bible is ' 'heavens' ' in 
the Greek, confirmatory of the universally received 



48 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

astronomy revealing inumerable worlds, which con- 
stitute the celestial empire. There is a sense in which 
Satan's revolt infected these heavenly worlds. As to 
this world, the devil actually cut its head off in the 
capture of its king and queen. Spiritual life is the 
head of the man. Satan cut it off. Hence the great 
work of Christ is the restoration of this world and the 
confirmation of all worlds in their eternal, unshaken, 
unshakeable, and perfect loyalty to the Divine admin- 
istration. Therefore, the victory over Satan in his 
ejectment out of heaven and his final defeat on earth, 
ultimate into the darkness of nonentity, infinitely be- 
yond the Ultimathule, where the combined illumina- 
tion of one hundred and seventeen million glowing 
suns have never shot one cheering ray, is all from his 
first revolt in heaven to his final and immutable doom 
through the blood of the incarnate Son. 

No wonder all heaven rejoiced when Satan and his 
followers were cast out; and we do not wonder that 
a dismal woe is pronounced on land and sea, because 
the devil and his innumerable demons have come 
down, if possible, to ruin every human being, dragging 
men and women indiscrimately into hell. Satan is in 
a great rage, burning with the enthusiasm of hell-fire 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 49 

to utilize every possible opportunity because his time 
is short. He has already had this world by the throat 
six thousand years, sweeping them into hell by mil- 
lions. But this period is very short, when contrasted 
with the never-ending eternity. 

While Satan is utterly dead spiritually, and desti- 
tute of spiritual light, yet he has a great and powerful 
intellect. To what extent he understands the Scrip- 
tures and fathoms the prophecies, WE KNOW NOT; 
but it is certain his mighty intellectual perspicacity has 
a wonderful diagnosis of the divine plans. He is fully 
assured that embargoes rest on his prerogative in the 
near future. Doubtless the fearful apostasy of the 
Churches, and the awful increase of wickedness in 
the world, especially in the last fifty years, result 
from Satan's unprecedented activity and adroitness in 
the prosecution of every conceivable stratagem for 
the seduction of souls and the population of hell. The 
solution of this alarming phenomenon is evidently in 
the fact that he has prophetic inklings that the Lord's 
kingdom is nigh, and his time is very short. Com- 
paratively with eternity it has always been short ; but 
now it is almost gone. No wonder the hosts of hell 
are all under double duty to get the caverns of de- 



50 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

struction filled up before his impending arrest and 
final imprisonment. 

"Now unto him that is able to keep you from fall- 
ing and to present you faultless before the presents 
of His Glory with exceeding joy; To the only wise 
God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and 
power both now and ever. Amen/' 



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Book II. 



REACHES FROM THE TIME OP CHRIST TO THE 

RAPTURE PERIOD 

THAT GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 



NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. W. B. GODBEY, D. D., 

COMMENTARY ON REVELATION, 

CHAPTER XX— P. 256-257 

' ' Oh, blessed and holy is he that has part in the first 
resurrection; over these the second death hath no 
power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, 
and shall reign with Him a thousand years." The 
word "holy" in this verse is the same word which' 
means Sanctified. This word, with its synonyms, oc- 



52 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

curs six hundred times in the Bible. Oh, what an 
inspiration to every soul to get sanctified wholly! 
Why does the second death have no power over the 
participants of the first resurrection? Because they 
have passed their probation, and now occupy their 
transfigured bodies. Did not the angels fall and be- 
come devils? This took place while passing through 
their probationary state. Evidently all created in- 
telligences are originally on probation. Doubtless the 
inhabitants of those heavenly worlds have long ago 
completed their probation. Hence we hear of no more 
apostasy. So it is with all who enjoy a part in the 
first resurrection. Being raised and translated when 
our Lord comes to reign, their probation having 
ended, they will enjoy the transfigured glory, forever 
triumphant over the second death. Of course, even 
the saints who shall live upon the earth during subse- 
quent ages, in their mortal bodies, will still be on pro- 
bation, exposed to temptations, liable to fall, and 
finally incur the horrors of the second death. This 
verse clearly assures us that all the participants of 
the first resurrection, whether risen or translated, will 
reign with Christ a thousand years. Oh, blessed as- 
surance and thrilling inspiration, driving all indiffer- 
ence, stupidity, and ennui beyond the North Pole! 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 53 

Just to think that our Savior is liable to descend this 
moment, raise His buried saints, translate the living", 
invest us with a crown and scepter, and promote us 
to a throne to participate in His glorious millennial 
reign. 

REVELATION, CHAPTER XIV— P. 157 

John testifies that the members of the bridehood 
are the first fruits unto God and the Lamb, while the 
glorious harvest is to be reaped during the millennium. 
This reveals the great and universal mistake on the 
part of God's people in recognizing the present age as 
the harvest. It is a time of toil, conflict, and perse- 
cution, in which much seed is sown, irrigated by tears ; 
but, as we are here informed, the reaping is only the 
first-fruit. This harmonizes with our Savior's testi- 
mony, that "the saved are few." In vain do we an- 
ticipate the wonderful in-gathering of the nations 
while Satan and his myrmidons are loose on the earth. 
Till they are cast out, the pilgrims on the King's 
highway will be here and there a traveler. We should 
now lay all the powers and agencies of Christendom 
under contribution to preach the gospel to all nations, 
that the elect of grace may enjoy a participation of 
the bridehood. We see here that the only condition 



54 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

of membership in the bridehood is entire sanctifica- 
tion. They are all " blameless/ ' and "no guile found 
in their mouth.' ' Hence we see they are fully saved 
from all phases of hypocrisy. Where will the bride 
be during the tribulation period? 1 Thess. 4:13, 18. 
We learn that the Lord will come and take up His 
saints, raising the departed from the dead and trans- 
lating the living. After this, when He comes to reign, 
He will bring with Him these same transfigured saints. 
What will the members of the bridehood up in the 
firmament during the tribulation be doing? While 
the Ancient of Days here on earth is administering 
the awful premillennial judgments (Dan. 7:13) the 
Son of God will be administering a very important 
premillennial judgment among the members of the 
bridehood. We are copiously informed in the word 
of God that Christ will rule the millennial world 
through His transfigured saints. Perfect order char- 
acterizes the universe of God in all worlds. Conse- 
quently, the very Greek word — cosmos, which means 
order, also means the world. Hence, you may rest 
assured the millennial world will be the beau-ideal 
of perfect order, as neither the devil nor his emis- 
saries will be here to disturb it. 



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REVELATION, CHAPTER XV— P. 179 

"I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, 
and those who are triumphant over the beast and his 
image, and the number of his name, standing on the 
sea of glass, having the harps of God." Here John 
has another vision of the bride. The sea of glass is 
the imperturbable experience of the soul's profound 
repose in Jesus when it enters the experience of en- 
tire sanctification. 

A thousand cyclones may sweep over a sea of glass 
and never make a ripple on the surface. So it is with 
this wonderful soul-rest. It is proof against all dis- 
traction and perturbation. " Commingled with fire" 
means the glorious baptism of Pentecostal fire, which 
Jesus always gives the sanctified soul. It is the Chris- 
tian's invincible panoply for the Lord's war against 
the devil. It is His indispensable palladium for the 
conquest of the world. A well-rested man will do 
about ten times as much work as a tired, worn-out 
man. Hence, perfect rest in Jesus and the fiery bap- 
tism flooding your soul will enable you to shout down 
every Jericho and chase a thousand devils. These are 
the people who have the victory over the beast, and 
his image, and the number of his name. We also find 



56 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

these victors over the beast, his image, and the num- 
ber of his name, all sing the song of Moses and Lamb. 
The normal attitude of the Mosaic Dispensation was 
that of justification, while that of the Christian Dis- 
pensation is entirely sanctification. Therefore you 
see all the members of the bridehood will sing about 
this wonderful double salvation. They all have the 
experience of regeneration and entire sanctification. 
So, if you are a candidate for the bridehood, you must 
have two experiences, and sing the song of Moses and 
the Lamb. 

"Thou alone art holy/' Hence you see, intrinsically 
none are holy but God. Wesley well says, "You 
cannot lay up a stock of holiness, as you can only 
be holy in connection with Christ. The moment you 
separate from Him, you have nothing but unholiness 
left." Hence we can only have delegated holiness, 
and receive it from Christ constantly by faith. Your 
faith should be as natural as breathing, so you rest 
in Jesus like a tired child in its mother's arms, un- 
conscious of the slightest effort on its part. 

This holiness is original in Jesus and imparted to 
us. Faith is the hand with which we reach out and 
receive this holiness. There is no defalcation about 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 57 

getting it. If we only touch the hem of His garment, 
virtue will come out of Him, and make us holy. In 
this respect we are like him. We partake of His holi- 
ness. (Heb. 12:10.) 

He is Prophet, Priest, and King on earth, He was 
the most indefatigable preacher, i. e., prophet, the 
world ever saw. Having finished His gospel ministry, 
He entered upon His priestly office in the capacity of 
high priest, offering His body on the cross, a sacrifice 
for the sins of the whole world. Then flying up to 
heaven, He sits down on the mediatorial throne at 
the right hand of the Father, there, by His interces- 
sory prayers, to perpetuate His priestly office till He 
descends to reign over the world. Meanwhile, the 
Father is administering the government of this world 
amid frequent castigatory judgments, which will 
finally culminate in the great tribulations, when the 
invisible Ancient of Days will sit upon the premil- 
lennial judgment-seat in this world, till all the thrones 
shall fall, kingdoms crumble, and Babylon topple to 
rise no more. Then the Son of man will come down 
in the clouds, take the scepter of the world from the 
hand of the Ancient of Days and rule all nations for- 
ever. (Dan. 7:13, 14.) 



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REVELATION, CHAPTER XVI— P. 190 

11 Behold, I come as a thief.' ' We are here reminded 
that our Savior will come about the time of these 
awful conflicts and steal away His bride. A thief 
always comes to steal. Our Savior wants nothing in 
this world but His bride till the devil is cast out of 
it ; then He will take possession. He frequently speaks 
of coming as a thief, since the thief is always unknown 
and unexpected. These characteristics of the thief 
will our Savior verify to His enemies. A wicked 
world and slumbering Church will have not the slight- 
est anticipation of His coming till He has come and 
taken away His bride. 1 Thess. 5:4, Paul assures us 
that to His saints He will not come as a thief in the 
night. No, we are on the outlook, and will not be 
surprised if He comes at noonday or at midnight. 

REVELATION, CHAPTER XX— P. 252 

In our Savior's sermon on the judgments, which He 
preached on Mt. Olivet the day before He was cruci- 
fied (Matt. 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21), describing 
His coming in the premillennial judgment, He says: 
"Two men shall be in the field; one is taken, and the 
other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; 







And I saw another angel fly in the midst of Heaven, having the everlasting gospel 
to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and 
tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, "fear God and give glory unto Him, 
for the hour of His judgement is come, and worship Him that made Heaven and 
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." (Rev. 14:6) 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 59 

the one is taken, the other left." He also says: 
"When the Son of man cometh, He will send forth 
His angels to gather out of the four quarters of the 
earth, from one extremity of the heavens, even unto 
the other extremity/ ' 

REVELATION, CHAPTER XIV— P. 160 

"I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven 
having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that 
dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred 
and tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear 
God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judg- 
ment is come, and worship Him that made Heaven and 
Earth and the Sea and the fountains of waters." The 
prophetical panorama clearly authenticates the con- 
clusion that this angel is the present Holiness move- 
ment. He is not only commissioned to preach the 
doctrine of holiness to all nations, but the coming 
of our Lord to judge the wicked Gentiles and the 
fallen Churches, and to call back the world to the 
worship of God only. We see from this chapter 
that this gospel of holiness and the Lord's coming 
is to be preached to all nations by the Holiness 
people. Bishop Taylor has twelve hundred mission- 
aries in the heathen field, Hudson Taylor eight hun- 



60 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

dred, A. B. Simpson four hundred, and General 
Booth twelve thousand, all preaching entire sanctifica- 
tion. Here we see four sanctified preachers, without a 
dollar, having fourteen thousand four hundred mis- 
sionaries preaching the gospel of holiness to nearly 
all the nations of the earth. The Holiness movement, 
without salaries, has more missionaries in the heathen 
field than all the Churches on the globe, with their 
wagon-loads of gold and silver. Men and women 
without financial resources are flying to the ends of 
the earth preaching the everlasting gospel of entire 
sanctification to all the nations. Last year I traveled 
twenty-two thousand miles, and did not have twenty- 
two cents to start with. 

The Holiness movement, symbolized by the angel 
in the 6th verse, is this day preaching the gospel 
throughout the whole world with wonderful expe- 
dition. Hudson Taylor, with his eight hundred mis- 
sionaries, is in China. 

Sanctified Bishop Thoburn, with his five Confer- 
ences, is in India. Sanctified Bishop Taylor, with 
his twelve hundred sanctified missionaries, is in 
Africa. A. B. Simpson is fast scattering his sanctified 
missionaries throughout the heathen world. Last 



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August, at Old Orchard Camp-meeting, in Maine, he 
raised seventy-two thousand dollars for missions at a 
single collection. The Salvation Army, with twelve 
thousand holiness preachers, belts the globe. Astound- 
ing is the velocity with which the Apocalyptic Angel, 
i e., the Holiness movement, is flying to the ends 
of the earth preaching entire sanctification and the 
speedy coming of the Lord to all nations on the face 
of the whole earth. 

This angel proclaims the fall of Babylon, which 
will speedily follow the preaching of the gospel to 
all nations. We see from the 18th chapter that Baby- 
lon will fall in the midst of the tribulations. The 
proclamation here is anticipatory of the coming event. 

REVELATION, CHAPTER VII— P. 62-71 

Meanwhile the Angel of the Lord is in a hurry 
to seal God's saints before the awful outbreak, as the 
Heavenly Bridegroom wants to take them out of the 
world. The light of salvations began in the East and 
moved toward the West. Hence the trend of gospel 
agencies and Christian progress has been with the 
sun — from East to West. 



62 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

REVELATION, CHAPTER VII 

Hence, so far as we know, there is not the slightest 
reason why the Lord may not now descend and take 
His bride out of the world. Here we have a clear 
definition of the qualification for the bridehood. The 
Holy Ghost says unequivocally they come out of great 
tribulation, having washed their robes and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb. Hence, entire sanc- 
tification is the solitary and inalienable qualification 
for membership in the bridehood. 

NOTES FROM SERMONS OF THE GREAT EVAN- 
GELIST, J. WILBUR CHAPMAN 

I am led to have special confidence in all that He 
has to say concerning His personal return to the earth. 
This has been to me for years a blessed hope. It has 
been one of the never-failing inspirations in my min- 
istry. It has constantly stirred me on to increased 
activity in connection with my evangelical work, and 
but for this blessed hope I think that many times I 
would have grown discouraged and felt like giving 



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everything up. I could wish for my brethren in the 
ministry and my Christian friends everywhere, no 
greater joy than that which has come to me in the 
thought that my Lord is coming back again to the 
earth. It may be that before this year ends He will 
come for His own, and if He comes, I want Him to find 
me not only watching but longing for His return. It 
was this hope which inspired the Apostle Paul as he 
neared the end of his earthly journey, and this made 
it possible for him to say, "For I am now ready to be 
offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for 
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the 
righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not 
to me only, but unto all them also that love his ap- 
pearing" (2 Timothy, 4:6, 7, 8). 

I give my message rather as a testimony, than as a 
discussion, and I delight to do this, for I am sure that 
my ministry has been blest, and my own experience 
greatly enriched, because I have so long looked for 
His return. 



64 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

"So I'm watching quietly every day, 
Whenever the sun shines brightly, 

I rise and say: 
'Surely it is the smiling of His face/ 
And look unto the gates of His place 

Beyond the sea : 
For I know that He is coming shortly 

To summon me." 

Titus 11 :13: Looking for that blessed hope, and the 
glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior 
Jesus Christ. 

1 Cor. 11:9-10: But as it is written, Eye hath not 
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart 
of man, the things which God hath prepared for them 
that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us 
by His Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, 
the deep things of God. 

I do not concern myself with the details of His 
coming; I do not discuss now the questions as to 
whether the Church shall have any part in the Tribula- 
tion. The scholars themselves are not agreed concern- 
ing these matters. I only know that all are agreed in 
this — that He is coming back, and I believe He may 
come soon. 



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* 'It may be at morn when the day is awakening, 
When sunlight through darkness and shadow is break- 
ing: 
That Jesus will come in the fullness of Glory, 
To receive from the world His own. 

"It may be at mid-day, it may be at twilight; 
It may be perchance that the blackness of midnight 
Will burst into light in the blaze of His glory, 

When Jesus receives His own. 
"0 joy! delight! should we go without dying, 
No sickness, no sadness, no dread, and no crying — 
Caught up through the clouds with our Lord into 
Glory 
When Jesus receives His own." 

I realized that the world surely was not growing 
better. I was not unmindful of great inventions, and 
great efforts put forth in behalf of the downtrodden 
and oppressed. I was not blind to the fact that great 
charitable institutions for the betterment of society 
had flung wide open their doors. I knew that all that 
was good in the world was getting better, but I also 
knew that all that was bad was constantly growing 
worse, and I knew then and know now that the world 



66 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

as a whole is not getting better, and this greatly dis- 
turbed me. Then I read words written by inspiration 
centuries ago, and these words were a perfect descrip- 
tion of what should be and what is., (1 Tim. 4:1-2): 
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that (in the year 
1916, it would seem as if such a reading were permis- 
sible) some shall depart from the faith, giving heed 
to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking 
lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a 
hot iron. — Is not this a perfect description of today? 
(2 Tim. 111:1-5). This know also that (in the year 
1915) perilous times shall come. For men be lovers of 
their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blas- 
phemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accu- 
sers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are 
good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, 
but denying the power thereof; from such turn away. 

If He should come while I am still alive, I know of 
several places at any one of which I should very much 
like to be when He appears. I think I should like to be 
in the Grayfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh, Scotland, 
and see the martyrs rise to greet Him, or I should like 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 67 

to be at Round Top in Northfield, where D. L. Moody 
is buried, and I should like to see him as he rises 
to meet his Lord — but best of all I should like to be at 
that spot where the graves of my own beloved dead are 
found, and see them as in the body they are caught 
up to meet Him. 

So I'm watching and I'm waiting 

Each moment of the day, 
For it may be at noon or evening 

When He calleth me away — 
And it makes the day go faster, 

And its trials easier borne, 
When I'm saying every morning 

Today the Lord may come. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XI— P. 117 

Hence, pursuant to these prophecies we fondly an- 
ticipate the return of our Lord to this earth in His 
Glorified humanity. Just so surely as He rode into 
Jerusalem on a donkey, He will come in on a cloud; 
so surely as He hung on the cross, will He sit on the 
throne. These Scriptures are plain and unmistakable, 
all theological tergiversations notwithstanding. Our 



68 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Lord's blood-washed bride in every nation under 
heaven now hears His voice, thrills with holy enthu- 
siasm, and hastens to meet Him as He comes back to 
earth not to suffer and to die, but to conquer and to 
reign. As Daniel and John, with many other inspired 
writers, constantly speak of His kingdom on earth 
with all other phases of revealed truth. While the 
Bible reveals that God the Father administers the 
retributive judgments which supervene during the 
Gospel Ages, the final judgment at the end of time. 
A THOUSAND YEARS— (Dr. Whedon, Commentor) 

As we are still in the land of symbol, there is ample 
reason for applying the symbolic interpretation to this 
number. We have the number of universality, ten, 
raised to a cube, and producing, on the year-day prin- 
ciple, 360,000 years. The 1260 years of antichrist rule 
dwindle thereby to an insignificant extent in compari- 
son with the earthly reign of Christ. Glasgow well 
says, " Against the hypothesis of the contracted mil- 
lennium there lies this startling objection: that it 
assigns to antichrist a more extended reign than to 
Christ. But, if the reign of Jesus be 360,000 years, and 
the end of antichrist or heathenism be speedily ap- 
proaching, their duration is of no moment, being at 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 69 

most about 7,000 out of 360,000 or one-five-hundredth 
part/' We are then only in the morning dawn of 
human history. Progress is the law, not only in nature 
and in history but in the Messianic kingdom. It is not 
only the few that are finally saved. Entirely correct is 
the inference drawn from the doctrine of the millen- 
nium by Dr. Bellamy, that the number of the lost in 
comparison to the saved may finally be as the number 
of male-factors now hung to the rest of society. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XVII— P. 203-204 

"I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the 
saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and 
seeing her, I was astonished with great astonishment." 
The woman — the harlot of Babylon, the fallen Church, 
the devil's disciple is drunk with the blood of God's 
saints and martyrs. History bears testimony to the 
appalling fact that she has murdered two hundred 
millions of saints. It is a significant fact that the 
secular powers have never slaughtered God's people 
unless manipulated by the ecclesiastical. The counter- 
feit bride is the implacable rival of the true, and has 
done her utmost to destroy her in all ages. The 
present opposition to holiness is the very venom and 



70 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

rage of the Babylonian hag. Why was John so unutter- 
ably astonished? The word "admiration" in English 
is utterly wrong and misleading. John's ineffable 
wonder was because he identified this drunken harlot, 
covered with the blood of God's saints and riding the 
cruel beast of Romanism, with the humble bride of 
Christ he saw fly from the bloody beast in the 12th 
chapter. The identity is indiscernible, save by the 
revelation of the Holy Ghost. This confirms most indu- 
bitably the apostasy of the Church. In a similar sense 
Satan was once a bright archangel in heaven. The 
devil has no creative power except of sin, death and all 
evil, and God can't create sin. But the devil has 
illimitable power of transformation. The fallen 
Church is a sad monument of this power. This won- 
derful transformation is so cunningly manipulated by 
the great deceiver that the victim never knows it till 
the Holy Ghost shines in. These two hundred millions 
of God's humble saints have all been accompanied to 
the burning stake by a long-faced clergyman, who be- 
lieved the cruel martyrdom was right and necessary 
to the glory of God and the good of his Church. Jesus 
Himself heads our list. When Caiaphas, the high priest 
of Jerusalem, signed His death-warrant, he assuredly 
believed he was doing God service. 



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NOTES FROM THE LORD'S RETURN— BY JESSE 
FOREST SILVER— P. 125-126-127-128 

The Huguenots. The French Huguenots were 
Chiliasts, and a very spiritual people. The Camisards 
and the French Prophets — rustic, plain, pious and 
chiliastic — who flourished after the Reformation, may 
be mentioned at this junction. 

The Camisards, French Huguenots, who were so 
called because of their extremely plain clothes, were 
loud in their expressions of chiliastic hope. They at- 
tracted special attention about the year 1700. They 
professed to have the Holy Ghost; they "staggered, 
fell, shut their eyes, heaved their breasts, shouted." 
In 1702 many were put to death by torture; leaders 
were burned alive in 1775; others were "broken on 
the wheel/ ' In their houses and on the hills their 
cries to God for mercy upon lost souls resounded over 
the land. Rome sent monks to convert them. They 
were numerous among the Cevennes Mountains of 
Southern France, where the "Poor of Lyon," the Albi- 
genses and the Waldenses sought refuge. Cruelly per- 
secuted, the Camisard peasants were "extinguished in 
blood." Evervinus, who executed many, wondered 



72 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

how those " members of the devil" could endure their 
torment "with joy and gladness/ ' 

French Prophets, precursors of the Irvingites, were 
Camisard refugees who came to England in 1706. They 
believed that Christ was coming very soon. They had 
the Holy Spirit; great internal divine joy and satis- 
faction ; strong spirit of prayer ; faith for divine heal- 
ing; zeal to carry the Gospel to every nation. Sir 
Richard Bulkeley, Lady Jane Forbes, and other promi- 
nent persons, were followers. Samuel Keimer came to 
America with the Quakers. 

John Wesley, who preached to ' 'Jumpers' ' and 
"French Prophets" in the highlands, found them pro- 
fessing holiness. Without condemning them, he men- 
tions unusual actions: "Frequently three or four, yea 

ten or twelve, pray aloud altogether Several 

drop down as stiff as a corpse ; but in a while they start 
up, and cry, "Glory! glory! perhaps twenty times 
together." Their religious fervour was intense, but 
their lives were unassailable. 

St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572, will never 
be forgotten. Let us go back to Paris in Reformation 
days. Here are the fathers of the people we have just 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 73 

seen. They are chiliastic and spiritual. Rome secretly 
plans their extermination. The nickname, "Hugue- 
nots," denoted "the vile condition of the Protestants/' 

The massacre, secretly planned, was horribly exe- 
cuted. A bell sounds ; Coligni, the Huguenot leader, is 
stabbed to death, then beheaded, thrown into the street, 
kicked, dragged and hung by the feet. When his door 
burst open, he exclaimed, "I have long been ready to 
die." Blood ran in the streets; thousands perished that 
night ; and within two months 70,000 were slain. Some 
estimate 100,000. 

"Rome was thrown into a delirium of joy at the 
news, ' ' and in Spain, the home of the Inquisition, Philip 
II "laughed for the first and only time in his life." 
The massacre was celebrated annually. Voltaire, the 
noted French infidel, protested vigorously against 
Rome's persecution of the Huguenots. 

The Inquisition disposed of hundreds of thousands 
of God's precious saints. In six years the Duke of Alva 
executed 18,600 "reformers" and "heretics" in Spain 
(1567-1573). Methods of torture employed were shock- 
ing in the extreme. The sword of Rome dripped with 
human blood. Multitudes recanted, but millions died as 
martyrs. 



74 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Albert Barnes computes that since the rise of the 
Papacy "not fewer than fifty millions of persons have 
been put to death on account of religion. ' ' Berg care- 
fully estimates that 68,500,000 men, women and chil- 
dren have been martyred by Rome." Dr. Beaumont 
exclaims: "What seas of blood have been shed! If 
their bodies were piled in one heap, they would be 
bigger than any mountain in the world ! Dr. Talmage 
— Where can language be found to frame an adequate 
expression as we meditate upon the record of Rome? 
We appeal to T. DeWitt Talmadge : 

"We cannot compete in bitterness with a Church 
that burned John Oldcastle, and scattered the ashes of 
Wickliffe, and massacred the Waldenses, and roasted 
over slow fires Nicholas Ridley, and had medals struck 
in honour of St. Bartholomew's massacre, and took 
God's dear children and cut out their tongues, and 
poured hot lead into their ears, and tore out their nails 
with pincers, and let water fall upon their heads until 
it wore to the brain, and wrenched their bodies limb 
from limb, and into the winepress of its wrath threw 
the red clusters of a million human hearts, till under 
the trampling of their feet the blood foamed to the 
lip of their imperial chalices/ ' 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 75 

And this is the Church that banished primitive Chris- 
tianity, buried Chiliasm, and revelled in darkness for a 
thousand years, and which now is spreading its net to 
try and capture the land of the free and the home of 
the brave. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMEN- 
TARY, PAGES 49 TO 57, ON REVELATION, 
CHAPTER VI, PROPHETICAL PROGRAMME 

Having passed through the Prologue, we now enter 
upon the prophetical panorama. This and the following 
chapter are devoted to a programmatical anticipatory 
presentment of the contents of the book, read in brief 
from the envelopes wrapped around it. These wrappers, 
with which the book was sealed, contained a summary 
of its revelation. 

The breaking of the first seal and the removal of 
the first wrapper introduces the gospel on the prophetic 
drama, which is destined to prove an important factor 
and play a conspicuous part in the wonderful trage- 
dies of the latter-day prophecies. A white horse comes 
forth, with a mounted cavalier, wearing a crown and 
bearing a bow with arrows. He goes forth conquering 
and to conquer. Here we see the divine ideal of a 
gospel preacher is a sanctified circuit-rider, emblema- 



76 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

tized by the white horse. Riding on horse-back, inhaling 
the pure atmosphere, is not only a first-class gymna- 
sium for muscular development, but a most excellent 
sanitarium. Hence the pulpit giants of all ages have 
been educated in " Brush College,' * and celebrated for 
their equestrianship. If I were young again, whether 
boy or girl, I would certainly be a sanctified circuit- 
rider, even if I rode a bicycle. Oh, that every reader 
of these pages may catch the gospel inspiration and 
turned sanctified circuit-riders ! 

Upon opening the second seal, behold, the red horse 
comes forth. This red horse symbolizes the bloody Mo- 
hammedanism. It constitutes the Oriental hemisphere 
of anti- Christendom, while Romanism constitutes the 
Occidental hemisphere. 

Since Satan conquered the world in Eden, he has 
deluged it with blood and bleached it with bones. 
It is estimated that twenty thousand millions of people 
have been slain in Satan's wars since the beginning 
of the world. All wars are the devils revivals, gotten 
up by his majesty for the population of hell. Never 
is the devil is so delighted as on a great battlefield, 
when men are killing one another by the wholesale, 
and thus engulfing multitudes into hell. Hence Satan 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 77 

and his people play a most conspicuous part in 
prophetical fulfillment. The history of this world 
is mainly the recital of Satan's work, since he cer- 
tainly has the big end of it, and is designated by 
the Holy Ghost "the god of this world." (2 Cor. 44.) 

MOHAMMEDANISM 

Mohammed began to preach in Arabia, A. D. 607. 
He boldly proclaimed to the world that he ascended 
with Gabriel, astride the same donkey which Christ 
rode into Jerusalem. Having flown through trackless 
ether, passing glittering spheres, rolling worlds, and 
blazing suns, with his archangelic escort, he arrives 
at the first heaven, where he finds Adam and Eve, so 
crippled by the fall that they have progressed no 
farther, but linger there with many of their children. 
They sweep on the etherial void traversed by rolling 
worlds, till they reach the second heaven, where they 
find a number of patriarchs and saints. Then onward 
they fly, halting anon at the third heaven. Then to 
the fourth, on to the fifth, and finally to the sixth, 
at all of which he finds multitudes of patriarchs, 
prophets, saints, and angels. At the sixth heaven 
Gabriel throws up his commission, alleging his un- 
worthiness to escort him any farther, at the same 



78 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

time notifying him that he must proceed alone to the 
seventh heaven, and there stand before the effulgent 
majesty of the Almighty, as He sits upon the throne 
of the universe, and who has sent him all the way 
down to this world to summon Mohammed to appear 
in His presence. Now Mohammed proceeds alone up 
to the seventh heaven, and stands before the Al- 
mighty, who notifies him that, having sent prophet 
after prophet to warn the wicked people of this 
world to repent, He finally sent His Son Jesus Christ 
to persuade them, by His condescending love and 
mercy, to repent of their sins. But all this had proved 
a failure, since, instead of repenting, they arose and 
slew Him. But now Mohammed represents the 
Almighty as sending him into this world, the last 
and most beloved of all the prophets, even from the 
beginning of the world. But He does not send him 
to pursuade men to repent, as all the others have 
come on that line, and signally failed; but He sends 
him armed with the sword to compel all the people 
in the world to cast away all other religions and wor- 
ship God Almighty alone, and receive the Koran, 
which Mohammed certified that the Almighty re- 
vealed to him while he stood in His august presence. 
Doubtless Mohammed was one of the most intelligent 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 79 

men the world ever saw. Though a son of Esau, he 
was the master-spirit of the Dark Ages. Satan was 
one of the brightest of the archangels before he fell. 
This wonderful superhuman intellect he retained after 
his spirit's apostasy, and utilizes at the present day. 
Doubtless Mohammed was wonderfully illuminated in- 
tellectually, inspired, energized, invigorated, and em- 
powered by Satan, was born in blood, death, rob- 
bery, and every species of crime. The Koran has no 
code of morals. It unscrupulously justifies robbery, 
murder, and licentiousness. It presents the greatest 
conceivable incentives to the most chivalric heroism 
on the battlefield. It says: "A night spent in arms 
is more precious in the sight of God than months of 
fasting and prayer. Whosoever dies in battle, his sins 
are forgiven. In the day of judgment, his wounds 
shall be resplendent as vermillion, and odoriferous as 
musk. In the Mussulman's paradise, seventy-two dam- 
sels of sparkling beauty shall minister to the most 
humble of the faithful." Mohammedanism is an iron- 
clad system of inflexible Monotheism, utterly repu- 
diating and eternally abjuring every form of idolatry. 
Thus, Mohomet proclaimed to the world that God had 
sent him to destroy all the idolatry on the globe, and 
purify the religions of the world. At the time of his 



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ministry, in the seventh century, Asia and Africa, the 
great apostolic fields of labor, were occupied by the 
Greek Church, which was full of image-worship. Ma- 
homet, born and reared in the wilds of Arabia, did 
not discriminate between corrupt Christianity, with its 
image-worship, which everywhere prevailed in the 
East, and the paganistic Churches. Hence, the Moslem 
armies exterminated all religions as they went, giving 
the people the solitary alternative of Koran or death. 
Thus loyal Mussulman believes he is to swim in Chris- 
tian blood. The Turkish Empire has been the upholder 
of Mohammedanism the last twelve hundred years. It 
was a penalty of death to profess Christianity in that 
empire till the treaty of Ryswick, A. D. 1844, when 
the united powers of Christendom forced on the Turks 
the Act of Toleration. This treaty they are now 
flagrantly violating in the Armenian massacres. 

BLACK HORSE 

The black horse here symbolizes the papacy, which 
has always been the oppressor of the poor, here indi- 
cated by the scarcity of edibles. It has always 
taught sacramental salvation through priestly manipu- 
lations, here indicated by the oil and the wine. 
Romanism constitutes the great Western hemisphere 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 81 

of anti- Christendom, of which Mohammedanism is the 
Eastern. The first pope, Boniface the Third, Bishop 
of Rome, was crowned by Phocas, the king of Italy, 
A. D. 606, whereas, Mahomet began to preach in 
Arabia at the same time. Throughout all of these 
prophecies the pope is currently denominated the 
" beast/ ' and Mahomet the "false prophet/' These 
two great wings of the Satanic kingdom have thrown 
their dark shadows around the world the last twelve 
hundred years, while Mohammedanism has deluged 
Asia and Africa with blood and whitened them with 
bones. Romanism, in the dark succession of the pagan 
emperors, who had slaughtered a hundred millions of 
saints, comes on and slays a hundred millions more. 
For a dozen centuries, the pope had his foot on the 
necks of all European kings, till the Lutheran Refor- 
mation jostled him on his pontifical throne, and re- 
laxed his iron grip. This was consummated by Victor 
Emanuel, A. D. 1870, who shook the pope from his 
temporal throne. The wonderful vitality and indom- 
itable energy of the papacy was then diverted from 
the bold and dictatorial altitude of the proud pon- 
tificate, swaying his iron sceptre over the heads of all 
kings, bowing, cringing vassals, praying his clemency, 
and kissing his feet, into clandestine subterranean 



82 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

channels through which, by Jesuitical intrigue, he is 
adroitly manipulating all the governments on the 
globe. He is today the greatest political trickster in 
the world. When I was there last summer, the royal 
embassadors were constantly calling on him. Through 
ten thousand diabolical devices he is doing his utmost 
to get possession of the democracies, both European 
and American. He has a majority in the municipal 
governments of all our great cities, and nearly all of 
our great popular daily papers of the cities; he is 
also said to have a majority in the United States 
army and navy. Roman Catholicism is increasing in 
the United States vastly more rapidly than the 
Protestant Churches. Notwithstanding his political 
dethronement in 1870, and the universal curtailment of 
the potent superstition with which he has bound the 
nations for ages by the world-wide circulation of the 
Bible within the last century, yet it is doubtful 
whether there was ever a period in the world's his- 
tory when the papacy was more influential than at the 
present day. It is my honest conviction that this 
wonderful and incorrigible nightmare on human con- 
science, the summary of all political intrigue, will 
run right on, with increasing volume and potency, till 
the Lord comes to take away His bride. Then, with 



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the inauguration of the great tribulations, the pope, 
as the master-spirit of anti-Christendom, will at once 
ostensibly and avowedly ascend the throne of anti- 
christ, assume the leadership of the world, boldly 
antagonize the Ancient of Days in His castigatory 
judgments, and impudently gainsay the prerogatives 
of the Lord Jesus Christ, when He descends with His 
glorified bride on the throne of His Millennial king- 
dom. 

2 Thess. 2, Paul says the glorified Savior will exter- 
minate him by the brightness of His presence. Rev. 
19 :20, John says he and the false prophet — i. e., 
Mahomet — will both be cast alike in the lake of fire. 
When I was in Cairo last summer there were ten 
thousand students in the Mohammedan university, 
studying the Koran, preparing to get out and preach 
the Moslem gospel to all nations. In these Scriptures 
the horse not only symbolizes character, but velocity — 
being the swiftest animal on the earth. The opening: 
of the first seal reveals the white horse, which is the 
gospel; and God wants it to move at race-horse speed, 
as it is a white horse. God has no gospel but sanc- 
tification, which makes you white. No wonder Satan 
is running away with the world; for he has three 



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horses. The red horse, Mohammedanism, offers bloody 
death to all who reject the Koran. The black horse, 
Romanism, deals only in sin, delusion, death, and 
damnation, black as the very fogs of the pit. 

PALE HORSE 

The pale horse revealed in the opening of the 
fourth seal symbolizes death, and portrays in horrific 
panoramas the awful horrors of death during the 
reign of Satan, and the night of sin, which have been 
on the earth the last six thousand years, doing their 
utmost to get hell filled up before the Lord comes to 
reign. It is estimated that the entire globe is depopu- 
lated by death every seventeen years. The Greek 
word chlooros, translated "pale" means livid, ghastly, 
corpse-like. This horse looks like he was dead on 
foot, having famished away till there is nothing left 
but skin and bones. His rider, the King of Terrors, 
the grim monster Death, is nothing but a bony skele- 
ton. As satan gives them all the vitality and power 
they need, their utter emaciation only adds to their 
lightning velocity. As this is Satan's period of the 
world (a Cor. 4:4), he is laying under contribution all 
the agencies of his kingdom for the population of 
hell. Thus the red horse, the black horse, and pale 



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horse, with their riders, are moving at race-horse 
speed to fill up hell before the Apocalyptic angel shall 
descend and take the devil out of the world. 

NOTES FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS ON 
REVELATION, CHAPTER VII— P. 68-69 

The Jewish people are a constant miracle in the 
eyes of all nations. While all their ancient contem- 
poraries have long ago sunk into oblivion, and even 
their memories perished, the Jews, exiled to the ends 
of the earth, persecuted and slaughtered indiscrimi- 
nately by all the prominent nations of the globe, 
driven from their own country, have found not an inch 
of territory on which to rest their weary feet. Yet 
they have outstripped all nations in the accumula- 
tion of wealth, and this day stand at the head of the 
financial world. When I traveled in Europe, Asia and 
Africa, I received my money from Jewish bankers. 
They also stand at the front of the learned world, 
excelling in the time-honored universities of the globe. 
In many nations they excel in law and journalism. 
In every land the hand of God is on them, preparing 
them for the metropolitanship of the world. In the 
good time coming, when the nations shall beat their 
swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning- 



86 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

hooks, and learn of war no more, how convenient it 
will be to carry all international controversies to Jeru- 
salem and refer them to committees of sanctified Jews, 
who are perfectly posted in the languages, laws, and 
finances of the different nations. They will constitute 
the international court to which all important matters 
will be referred by the nations of the earth. 

Here we have the Gentile counterpart of the bride- 
hood. They come up from every nation, tribe, people 
and language, clothed in white robes, with palms of 
victory in their hands. Matt. 24:14, Jesus says, "The 
end shall come when the gospel shall have been 
preached among all nations.' ' 

THE GOSPEL IS NOW PREACHED TO ALL 
NATIONS— THE COMPILER'S NOTES 

The end here mentioned will be the end of this 
mortal life to all of God's elect, also it will be the 
end to the bridal number as the number for the 
bride will be made up; also it will be the end of the 
martyrs' bodies sleeping in the dust. Also it will 
be a great commencement, "For the Lord Himself 
shall descend from heaven with a shout ; with the 
voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God 



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and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the cloud to meet the Lord in the air 
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefor 
comfort one another with these words/ ' Thess. 1, 
4:16-17-18. 



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Book III. 

THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIOD 



NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEYS COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XX— P. 254 

Matt. 24:21, "For then shall be great tribulation, 
such as was not since the beginning of the world to 
this time, no, nor ever shall be." 

Thus, when the Lord takes up His bride, all the 
Christians and people on the earth who are not filled 
with the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit — sanctified wholly 
— will be left to stem the horrors of the tribulation. 
The Salt of the earth will be taken away. 



90 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Amid the awful troubles which shall flood the 
whole earth, testing all souls to the bottom, in the 
utter absence of all the sanctified people, it is to be 
feared that the great majority will backslide and 
lose their souls. However, to our comfort, we see 
from this Scripture that some will get sanctified 
during the tribulation and persevere to the end. But 
it is a significant fact that most all of them will 
suffer martyrdom. Antichrist will rally his blood- 
thirsty millions against those who refuse to worship 
the beast and his image. Satan then will have a free 
hand with nothing to restrain him. 

THE WAR OF ARMAGEDDON, REVELATION, 
CHAPTER XVI 

"I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out 
of the mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the false 
prophet. They are the spirits of devils working 
miracles, which go forth to the kings of the whole 
world to gather them into the war of the great God." 
The 16th verse calls it the great battle of God 
Almighty! The name of this battle is Armageddon. 
It has but one other mention in the Bible, and that is 
in the 5th Chapter of Judges, where Deborah, a 
mother in Israel, and Barak, led their little band 



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against Sisera, the greatest military chieftain on the 
earth, in the leadership of a mighty host equipped 
with nine hundred formidable scythe-armed chariots, 
drawn by fleet steeds, and other belligerent equipage. 
Deborah and Barak, with their scantily-armed braves, 
evacuate their quarters on Mt. Tabor, march down, 
cross the River Kishon, flowing at the base of the 
mountain, and proceed to meet the enemy on the 
plain of Megiddo. Har is a Hebrew word, and means 
mountain. Add that word to Megiddo, the name of 
the plain where the battle was fought at the base of 
the mountain, and you have Armageddon. While 
Deborah and Barak, accompanied by the little band 
of heroic stalwarts, are on the march to meet the 
formidable foe, God sends a great hail-storm to pour 
down the fatal icy cannon-balls on the heads of 
Sisera's men. They fall in piles, heaping the plain 
with mountains of the dead, affrighting and rendering 
unmanageable the chariot-horses, so they leap like kan- 
garoos, hurling their drivers headlong and dashing 
furiously through the phalanx, cutting the men to 
pieces with the sharp scythes attached to the chariots. 
Thus the plain of Megiddo is heaped with slain, and 
the River of Kishon flows with blood. Meanwhile, 
Deborah's army have nothing left for them to do but 



92 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

roar out the shout of victory. Sisera sees his army 
ruined, flees for his life, and is slain by Jael, the 
Kenite, a heroic maiden, with her own hand. Since the 
terrible wars against God Almighty during the tribu- 
lations are called Armageddon, I take it for granted 
His enemies will kill one another as Sisera J s men did. 
We also read much about hail, earthquakes, lightning, 
and all the powers of nature utilized in the conflict 
to sweep the wicked into eternity. In what sense are 
we to understand these wars to be against the 
Almighty. God justly claims the right to rule the 
world in righteousness and love. The Bible is the 
only law-book. Jesus is coming to reign over the 
world. He has a right to rule it, for He redeemed it 
by His blood. The world powers political and eccle- 
siastical, are unwilling to surrender the reign into his 
hand. Hence they will fight to hold the power they 
now possess and get more; but as in the case of the 
ancient Armageddon, they will kill one another, such 
as survive the hail, lightning, and earthquakes. 

ANTICHRIST 

Will rise, concentrate the world powers, and take 
the lead in the Armageddon wars. This word is from 
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Christ means the rival of Christ, i. e., one who takes 
the place of Christ. Of course, such a one would be 
the greatest of all the enemies of Christ. This defini- 
tion would at present apply to both pope and Ma- 
homet, and in a prominent sense to their subordinate 
clergy. Since antichrist is the uncompromising enemy 
of Christ, we may expect the antichrist in successive 
ages to be progressive, like the Christhood. 

Hence, in the grand culmination and the final con- 
flict, when Christ comes to claim His kingdom, anti- 
christ will stand up and oppose Him as never before. 
2 Thess. 2:4. 

"He that opposeth and exalteth himself above every- 
thing that is called God or divinity, so that he sitteth 
in the temple of God, and showing himself that he is 
God." 

Here is a scene destined to transpire in the last 
days. The application of this chapter to the pope is 
quite unmistakable. Hence we conclude that anti- 
christ will rise very early in the tribulation in a 
prominence the bygone ages have never seen, and 
hold out persistently, claiming and exhibiting himself 
as the real Christ. We see he holds on after Babylon 



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falls and all the kings are swept away, finally with 
Mahomet, to be cast into the lake of fire. 

BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 

"And there were lightnings, voices, and thunders, 
and a great earthquake, such as was not from the 
time man was upon the earth, such and so great was 
the earthquake/ ' 

"And the great city was divided into three parts, 
and the cities of the nations fell." There is no doubt 
but the powers of nature will be largely utilized in 
the infliction of the castigatory judgments destined 
to come on the earth in the closing days of the pres- 
ent age. Of all calamities, the earthquakes perform 
the work of death in the most wholesale and expe- 
ditious manner, burying whole cities and nations alive. 
In this 19th verse the city of Babylon is specified, 
which is an ancient name of Rome, as well as sym- 
bolically identical, since Babylon was the perse- 
cuting power against the Church in the former dis- 
pensation, and Rome in the present. The apostle Peter 
dates one of his letters at Babylon, which is believed 
to have been written at Rome. In this prophecy, we 
find that Rome will be divided into three parts by 



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the earthquake, and many metropolises of the differ- 
ent nations will be shaken down and utterly destroyed. 
Perhaps our New York, and many other great Ameri- 
can cities, will be destroyed by these earthquakes. 
It is highly probable that the time-honored capitals 
of the old world, with innumerable palaces of smaller 
notoriety, will be destroyed by these earthquakes. 

4 * Every island fled and the mountains were not 
found.' ' As it says these earthquakes will be such 
as the world never saw before, and never will again, 
of course the normal effect would be to sink the 
islands out of sight, and so disrupt the mountains as 
to destroy their identity. 

The 21st verse speaks of such hail as the world 
never saw before. The Hebrew talent weighed ninety- 
three pounds avoirdupois. Of course such a hail- 
storm would be like mill-stones falling from heaven, 
not only killing every person and animal in its 
course, but smashing cities and demolishing every 
superstructure of human art. No wonder the Holy 
Ghost certifies that the world never saw calamities 
comparable with the great tribulation, which will im- 
mediately precede our Lord's coming, before the mil- 
lennial, Here we have the sad statement against the 



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people, instead of repenting under these terrible judg- 
ments, only give way to wrath and blasphemy. When 
Noah's Flood was coming on, it seems that the Holy 
Ghost retreated away from the ungodly Antediluvians. 
Gen. 6:3:" My Spirit shall not always strive with man. ' \ 
When the Lord comes in the rapture, takes up His saints 
with Him into the cloud, and leaves this wicked world 
without the light of a holy example or testimony, the 
Scriptures descriptive of the oncoming tribulations in- 
variably corroborate the conclusion of the withdrawal 
of the Holy Spirit. Really this is one of the present 
signs of the Lord's near coming — because "iniquity 
doth abound, the love of many doth wax cold/' 

REVELATION, CHAPTER XVIII 

All religion intoxicates. The people thought the 
apostles were drunk when filled with the Holy Ghost 
on the day of the Pentecost. It is equally true that 
false religion intoxicates — the one with the Spirit of 
God, sanctifying you and making you holy like God, 
the other with the spirit of Satan, filling you with 
lying delusions, making you dream you are on your 
way to heaven when you are on a bee-line to hell, 
inspiring you with Satan's false faith. 



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The whole world has long followed Satan's gew- 
gaws, expending their money for imaginary emolu- 
ment. During the tribulation, all the Satan's delu- 
sions will be unearthed to the eye of the world. 
National finances are generally on a bogus founda- 
tion. All intrigue, externality, and pomposity must 
fade before the coming King. The millennial will be 
a world of realities. From an analysis of the bogus 
condition of the world. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XVIII, PAGE 227 

We see from these verses the final doom of Rome. 
She is to sink into the sea and never be seen again. 
Having been terribly shocked and divided into three 
parts by the earthquake early in the tribulation 
(16:19), she is finally to receive another shock, so 
terrible as to bury her so deep in the sea that not a 
spire nor monument will ever be seen again. On 
that enchanted spot, where sat the world's ruler two 
thousand years, naught shall be seen but the mighty, 
thundering billows of the dark, deep sea. From the 
founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus, B. C. 753, 
she has been cruel as the grave and despotic as 
Diabolus. She deluged the world with blood and 



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whitened it with bones, to make her way to the 
summit of despotic power. Under pagan rule, for 
three hundred years, she fattened her lions on Chris- 
tians, till she fed out one hundred millions. Under 
papal rule, she has martyred a hundred million more. 
"In her, the blood of prophets, saints, and all of 
those slain upon the earth, is found.' ' Babylon was 
the persecuting power under the former dispensation, 
and Rome, her successor, under the latter. It is a 
significant fact that this wicked world has never 
martyred God's saints, but this odious diabolism has 
always devolved on the votaries of false religion. 
Rome began her bloody catalogue with the Son of 
God; the Jews not having the power of Capital pun- 
ishment, it devolved on the Romans, the rulers of the 
world. When I was in Rome I saw the finest monu- 
ments of ancient art, having been transported from 
Egypt. Rome is to this day the monumental city of 
the world, still abounding in the mementos of her 
former grandeur, when she dictated law to all nations. 
Amid all her boasted grandeur and glory, she simply 
ruled by wild-beast power. She is the grand ultimatum 
of human rule, both political and ecclesiastical. Her 
best achievements, in the former consisted in the ter- 
ror inspired by her ferocious brutality; in the latter, 



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those dark superstitions which gave sanction to all 
the blood and slaughter of popery, prelacy, and priest- 
craft. So black is the record of Rome that she cannot 
survive the tribulation, lest she darken the escutcheon 
of the millennial world. 

NOTES TAKEN PROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XIV 

As you see in this chapter, the Lord will soon ride 
down on a cloud, reap the sanctified harvest, and take 
away His bride. Then the retributive angel comes 
down and reaps the vintage, which means the wicked 
who rejected the gospel of holiness and the Lord's 
coming. You see this terrible destruction of the 
wicked immediately follows the Lord's harvest of the 
good. They both follow as legitimate sequences of 
the gospel sowing. The one class received it and 
were harvested into the heavenly garners; those 
who rejected it fell in the terrible and universal 
slaughter, symbolized by the vintage, with rivers of 
blood two hundred miles wide and deep enough to 
crimson the trapping of the war-horses. Daniel 
graphically describes this terrible doom of a wicked 
world and a fallen church (7:9, 10) : 



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"I beheld the thrones were cast down and the 
Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white 
as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool; 
His throne the fiery flame, and His wheels burning 
fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth before 
Him: a thousand thousand ministered unto Him, 
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before 
Him. The judgment was set and the books were 
opened/ ' This is not the final judgment, because you 
see, as you read on, that the Lord's millennial king- 
dom follows, whereas the conflagration of the world 
will accompany the final judgment, in which the 
thrones of this world will all be cast down, prepara- 
tory for the King of Kings to descend, establish His 
kingdom and reign forever. Whereas the Son will 
come in His glorified humanity, which ascended up 
from Mt. Olivet, and be visible to mortal eye as He 
was then, the Ancient of Days here spoken of is the 
Father, who has no incarnation, and is consequently 
invisible. 

The Father said to the Son, "Sit Thou on My 
right hand, till I make Thine enemies Thy footstool." 
The Son still encumbers the intercessory throne at 
the right hand of the Father. 



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The Battle of Armageddon is here adumbrated in 
epitome. The blood flows to the horses' trappings. 
In the East, war-horses are decorated with regalia, 
frequently hanging down below their knees. Such 
was the ornamentation of the noble Arabic steed rode 
by my armed escort (A Bedouin Arab) when I trav- 
eled through the wilderness of Judea to the Dead Sea, 
River Jordan, and Jericho. The idea is that the 
battlefield will flow with rivers of blood, so as to 
crimson the horses' regalia. Rome is to be the center 
of the battleground, which is to extend one thousand 
six hundred furlongs; i. e., two hundred miles. As 
Rome is the successor of Babylon, the persecutor of 
the ancient Church, she here symbolizes antagonism 
to the Divine government, and represents the apostate 
Church in all the world. 

So we see, amid these terrible national convulsions 
and revolutions, every ruler is to be shaken from his 
throne, and not a government left on the globe com- 
petent to protect the life and property of its citizens. 
Jesus, in His sermon on the premillennial judg- 
ments, which He preached on Mt. Olivet the day be- 
fore He was arrested, certifies, "These are the days 
of vengeance/ ' While wholesale murder, rapine, and 



102 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

violence are the order of the day, rivers of blood and 
mountains of dead everywhere saluting the eyes, and 
the very winds burdened with the wails of the dying. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER VIII 

The Lion of the tribe of Judah now opens the 
seventh seal, which reveals the contents of the vol- 
ume of the book. So now we enter upon the wonder- 
ful revelations of the book itself. So momentous are 
the contents of the book that seven trumpet-bearing 
angels are now called to proclaim them to the world. 

Here is another specification of the significant fact 
that the terrible retributive judgments executed 
against a wicked world and fallen Church actually 
take place in answer to the prayers of martyrs and 
saints. 

Thunders, voices and earthquakes all vividly sym- 
bolize the mighty agencies employed by Omnipotent 
Jehovah in the execution of these terrible castigatory 
judgments. 

The seven trumpet-bearing angels are now ready on 
the stage of the celestial theater, prepared to sound. 
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and fire, mingled with blood, are cast upon the earth, 
and terrible destruction follows. 

When the second angel sounds his trumpet a great 
mountain, flaming with fire, is cast into the sea. Ap- 
palling are the consequences. The four first trumpets 
proclaim the sad inauguration of Satan's millennium 
in progressive stages. Pursuant to the first trumpet, 
the infection comes upon the whole earth, contam- 
inating the atmosphere of every nation annunciated 
by the second trumpet. The malady reaches the peo- 
ple, infecting all classes of society with an incorri- 
gible revolutionary spirit, disrupting all the founda- 
tions of the social fabric. At the time the third angel 
sounds his trumpet, the infection has interpenetrated 
all the subordinate departments of national govern- 
ments, so the proconsuls, satraps, and deputies can 
no longer enforce their authority. The fourth trum- 
pet is the general signal for the toppling of thrones 
and the falling of kingdoms, till the world is left 
without a government competent to protect its citi- 
zens. Meanwhile, marauding bands of robbers and 
murderers take possession, and life and liberty are 
held only by the stern abitrament of the sword. 



104 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

The four first trumpets thus proclaim the progres- 
sive disintegration of all human governments, till they 
literally topple and fall; and the devil's millennium, 
fully inaugurated, inundates the world in an ocean 
of anarchy, heresy, bloodshed, and every species of 
crime. Meanwhile, universal political corruption and 
dilapidation flood all nations. A corresponding infec- 
tion everywhere settles down on the visible Church, 
transforming it from apostolic simplicity and purity 
first into the proud, worldly ecclesiasticism of the 
Constantinian Age, and then into the appalling cor- 
ruptions, shocking barbarities, bloody persecutions, 
and atrocious criminality of the diabolical papacy, 
outraging Satan himself with the horrific Inquisition. 
When I was in St. Peter's Church at Rome, I saw the 
bronze statue of St. Dominic, cruel horror depicted on 
his grim visage, and the infuriated dog standing by, 
with a firebrand in his mouth. This is the historic 
symbol of the Inquisition, of which St. Dominic was 
the author. And you see how the Catholic Church 
has canonized him as a paragon saint! 

REVELATION, CHAPTER IX 

When Satan succeeded in the postponement of God's 
millennium and the inauguration of his own. in its 



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worldwide dominion, he climaxes the hellish enter- 
prise by raising Mahomet to rule the East, and the 
pope the West, as his faithful subordinates in the 
wholesale damnation of the world. 

It seems that all the powers of hell are turned loose 
to tempt the bride of Christ. In the glorious scheme 
of divine administration, Christ proposes to evangelize 
and rule this and many other worlds through the in- 
strumentality of His true, faithful, and loyal bride. 
Hence, it is pertinent that all the candidates for the 
heavenly bridehood be subjected to every conceivable 
temptation, lest they might deflect and fall amid the 
momentous responsibilities incumbent on them in their 
responsible participation of the divine administration 
amid the bright immortal worlds which shall consti- 
tute the celestial empire in the ages of coming eter- 
nity. For reasons by us, amid the joys and storms 
of this fleeting probation, utterly incomprehensible, it 
is imperatively requisite that we pass through all the 
flint-mills earth and hell can invent. If we do not 
come out with a shout, it is demonstrative proof that 
we still need another flint-mill. 



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NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 

ON REV. XX— THE DEVIL ARRESTED LIKE 

A MURDERER BY THE POLICE ANGEL 

"I saw an Angel come down from Heaven having 
the key of the Bottomless Pit and a great chain in 
his hand, and he laid hold on the dragon, that old 
serpent, which is the devil and satan, and bound him 
a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless 
pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he 
should deceive the nations no more until the thousand 
years should be fulfilled, and after that he must be 
loosed a little season/ ' 

(A WORLD WITHOUT A DEVIL, GLORY TO GOD!) 
REVELATION, CHAPTER XX 

Six thousand years have rolled away amid the dis- 
mal night of Satan's reign. Terrific has been the 
probationary ordeal. Hell's harvest has swept on and 
on through the forlorn and dreary ages. Perdition 
has devoured a hundred generations, with an excep- 
tion here and there. Humanity without a God has 
proved a miserable failure in every dispensation. 
The Antediluvian world became so awfully wicked 
that God saw that existence simply meant damnation. 



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Hence, in mercy, He must sweep them from the earth. 
Likewise, each Post-diluvian Dispensation has gone 
from bad to worse, till the wickedness of the nations 
and the abominations of fallen Churches have culmi- 
nated in the terrible judgments of the great tribula- 
tion, which has swept the unsaveable into perdition. 
Satan hath wrought valiantly, and hell is well filled. 
Since the inauguration of the premillennial judg- 
ments inflicted by the Ancient of Days against a 
wicked world and Fallen Church, the tide of most 
disastrous defeat has set against the devil. For six 
thousand years he was the custodian of hell, having 
charge of the key, which he turned against countless 
millions, sparing neither age, sex, rank, dignity, priest, 
nor potentate. Rev. 9th exhibits him in sole posses- 
sion of the key of the bottomless pit. Amid the awful 
reverses which he suffered during the Armageddon 
conflicts, among other terrible losses, the key of hell 
is wrested from him. 

It is now in the hands of the police-angel, descend- 
ing from heaven with a great chain. Behold, he 
arrests the devil like a common desperado, binds him 
hand and foot with the chain, takes the key and un- 
locks the pandemonium of unquenchable fire, casts 



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him into a dismal, gloomy dungeon, locks him up, 
and puts the seal of the Almighty on the ponderous 
iron door: "No exit for the next thousand years!" 
This is an awful day in Satan's history. He has seen 
the trophies of six thousand years of successful war- 
fare all vanish into the night of dark despair. For 
ages kings, potentates, popes, and priests have been 
his loyal subjects. They have all fallen and perished. 
Pope and Mahomet, the last of all to survive the 
wreck of premillennial judgments, have been precipi- 
tated into the burning lake. Hence, he now stands 
alone, as when he invaded Eden six thousand years 
ago. The very solitude of his situation is appalling 
in the extreme. He sees the sheriff of the heavenly 
government approaching to lay violent hands on him. 
His adamantine heart melts with cowardice. Trem- 
bling in his boots for his inevitable doom, he suc- 
cumbs to his fate. Already the sweeping revival con- 
ducted by the King of Glory and the transfigured 
saints of His bridehood has compassed the globe, gir- 
dled the continents, and inundated all nations with 
the glories of entire sanctification, which is the mil- 
lennial experience. Therefore, the long-prayed-for 
sunburst of the heavenly glory has already come down 
on the world, and the millennium has come, and come 



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to stay. Jesus reigns, and reigns victorious over 
heaven and earth most glorious. The dismal night 
of sin, hiding millions of cruel devils, spreading devas- 
tation and death throughout the world, has retreated 
before the bright effulgence of the glorious millennial 
day. Truly, the halcyon days of dear old Eden have 
come back. Don't you hear the ring of the anvil? 
They are even now beating the bloody swords of war 
into plowshares and the cruel spears into pruning 
hooks, The Omnipotent Healer is here, and sickness 
is fast becoming unknown. Physicians have thrown 
away their pill-bags and turned to Holiness evan- 
gelists. The dark memories of Satan's bloody reign 
of a thousand weary years are fast fading away and 
sinking into oblivion. Then shall the glory of God 
cover the world as the waters cover the sea. "Thy 
kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven,' ' has now come and come to stay. 



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GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 111 



Book IV. 



NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 

ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XIV— CHRIST'S 

GLORIOUS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM 

We are here introduced to the Lamb and his bride 
standing on Mt. Zion. The chronological panorama 
corroborates the conclusion, as in Chapter VII, that 
the Rapture has come, the bride is called, the first 
resurrection has taken place, the living saints have 
been translated, and all rendezvoused on Mt. Zion, at 
Jerusalem, preparatory to their ascension into the 
firmament. The wonderful supernatural graces of 
entire sanctification always superscribe the Divine 
cognomen in the faces of his saints. How much more 
pre-eminently will this be verified in the transfigured 
saints ! 



112 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Here John testifies to the uproarious shouts of this 
multitude, like the thundering billows of the great 
ocean breaking against the rock-bound shore, com- 
mingled with the deafening roar of tremendous thun- 
der-claps, all softened and sweetened by the dulcet 
clarion of golden harps. Meanwhile, amid the tre- 
mendous roar, the prophet distinctly discriminates the 
new song of redemption, rung out from the immortal 
and indefatigable voices of the blood-washed throng. 
He tells us this is the "song of Moses and the Lamb/' 
Moses was the mediator of the Old Covenant, on the 
basis of justification, and Christ of the New, whose 
standard is entire sanctification. Hence, we find the 
members of the bridehood all testify in song of this 
wonderful double salvation, experienced in regenera- 
tion and entire sanctification. 

MARRIAGE SOLEMNIZATION 

At last the long-anticipated nuptials of Christ and 
His bride are now to be celebrated. False claimants 
must be disposed of before the bride can be truly re- 
ceived into heavenly wedlock. Babylon has vocifer- 
ated her claims around the world the last twelve hun- 
dred years. Since her fatal catastrophe the voice of 
a rival has not resounded in terrestrial air. Hence, 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 113 

an important preparation for the nuptials has trans- 
pired on earth, sweeping every rival from the field. 
But perhaps a still more important antecedent has 
transpired in heaven! Since the Lord descended and 
took away His bride from the oncoming tribulation, 
a very important adjustatory judgment has been going 
on among the members of the bridehood. Paul says 
the transfigured saints will differ either from the other 
in glory like the stars of the firmament. 

Jesus says: "One shall rule five cities and another 
ten." Hence, you see there will be an infinite diver- 
sity in the coming kingdom. I Cor. 15:23: "Each 
one shall rise in his own rank." From these and 
many other Scriptures we find quite a vast dissimili- 
tude in the transfigured state as in the present. When 
our Lord descends on His royal throne to take the 
government of this world into hand, and rule it 
through the members of the glorified bridehood, all 
the participants of the coming administration will be 
perfectly adjusted, so the machinery of the new king- 
dom will move in perfect harmony. All this infini- 
tesimal adjudication and adjustment, essential to the 
most perfect regulation of the bridehood, will take 
place upon the firmament, while tribulation tornadoes 



114 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

are desolating this world. How did His bride make 
herself ready? By the eternal abandonment of a per- 
fect consecration, followed by that indefatigable faith 
which will die before it will doubt, and accompanied 
by an unfaltering obedience. 

Because linen is free from contact with animals, it 
emblematizes entire sanctification. For the very op- 
posite reason, wool typifies carnality. The Israelites 
were not allowed to wear garments mixed with wool 
and linen. This is a powerful lesson in favor of en- 
tire sanctification as the only possible way to have an 
unmixed experience, which is emblematically taught 
in the unmixed garment. 

This unmixed garment is an absolute prerequisite 
to every one who would attend the marriage-supper 
of the Lamb. None but the participants of the gospel 
feast are invited to the marriage-supper. If you would 
attend the supper, you must be a member of the bride- 
hood. You enter that bridehood in the experience of 
sanctification. Then and there your spirit is married 
to the Spirit of Christ. This must take place before 
the Lord comes to take up His bride, if you would 
ascend with Him. 



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The marriage here spoken of is that of transfigured 
humanity after the body has been raised from the 
dead, or translated, and reunited with the soul, never 
again to be separated. 

Multitudes of people in all nations will survive the 
tribulation, and remain on the earth till our Lord 
descends with His transfigured bride to set up His 
millennial kingdom and reign forever. All these 
people must be converted and sanctified at the inaug- 
uration of the King. This will be the first great work 
of the bridehood. 

"His eyes a flame of fire," indicates His omniscience. 
"Upon His head many diadems/ ' is anticipatory of 
His triumphant supersession over all the kings of the 
earth, whose crowns are to be placed upon His head. 
The name written is conqueror, known only to Him- 
self, as He conquers purely by His own omnipotence. 

Encircled with a garment sprinkled with blood. It 
is the symbolism of a triumphant warrior on the 
battle-field, his garment sprinkled with the blood of 
his slain enemies. "His name was called the word of 
God." Word means revelation. The incarnate Christ 
is Himself the greatest of all God's revelations to the 
world. This statement is a positive confirmation that 



116 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

the person here described is none other than our 
glorious King coming down to reign. 

"Armies follow Him in the firmanent on white 
horses, clothed in linen white and clean/ ' These are 
the members of the glorified bridehood ; i. e., the trans- 
figured saints, coming down with Christ to conquer 
the whole world with the gospel sword ; i. e., to preach 
the gospel to all nations, and get them converted and 
sanctified. Under the ministry of this mighty host, 
"a nation shall be born in a day." 

"Out of His mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged 
sword, that with it He may smite the nations.' ' This 
sharp sword going out of the mouth of the glorious 
Savior simply means His word — i. e., the gospel — by 
which the whole world will be speedily evangelized 
and saved at the beginning of the millennium. "He 
will shepherd them with an iron rod/' An iron rod 
in the hand of a devil or a wicked man would be 
awful, but in the hand of the infallible God it is 
blessed and glorious, calculated to transform this 
world into a paradise. 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 117 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XX 

Glory to God for a world without a devil in it! 
Satan and his myrmidons have all retreated away, to 
trouble the world no more for the next thousand years. 

During the long reign of sin, the earth has been 
terribly abused, brutalized, barbarized, beggarized, 
and impoverished! Under the pacific reign of our 
glorious King, co-operated in every city, village, island 
and continent by His transfigured saints, whose de- 
light will be to rule in wisdom, instruction, righteous- 
ness, and love, the waste lands will be repaired and 
fertilized, the marshes drained and transformed into 
fruitful fields, and the deserts irrigated and metamor- 
phosed into blooming gardens. After the ejectment 
of Satan and his myrmidons, and the consequent ex- 
purgation of the diabolical institutions out of the 
world, the castigatory judgments of God will cease. 
The fruits, no longer nipped by frost nor blighted by 
drought, will literally burden the fields with their 
inexhaustible exuberance. The rich will delight in 
relieving the poor, till poverty shall actually depart 
from the whole earth. Wisdom, industry, enterprise, 
disinterested philanthropy, and spontaneous benefac- 



118 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

tions, under the benignant reign of Prince Immanuel, 
will transform the earth into a paradise. Thus the 
Edenic state, when humanity walked with God, in 
blissful ignorance of Satan and his devices, after the 
long, dreary night of six thousand years, has actually 
come back, and come back to stay. Sickness and 
sorrow have alike retreated away, and the generations 
are approximating Antediluvian longevity. 

Translation without dying was the original economy 
of the Edenic state. Presumptively translation, in 
millennial times, will again become common. 

John says, "I saw thrones/ ' Presumptively, these 
thrones are occupied by the members of the bridehood, 
who have gone up in the rapture. They now reign 
with Christ over the nations. At the millennium they 
are joined in their administration by all the tribula- 
tion martyrs, who are now raised from the dead and 
honored with the participation in the millennial the- 
ocracy. 

"The rest of the dead live not till the thousand 
years may be fulfilled. This is the first resurrection.' ' 
From this verse you see that the first resurrection 
will only include the martyrs. It is an impressive 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 119 

fact that the same Greek word means ' 'martyr' ' and 
1 'witness.' ' Hence, in order to be a true witness for 
Jesus, you must have the martyr spirit; i. e., be con- 
stantly ready to suffer martyrdom. If you are really 
a true witness for Jesus under all circumstances, even 
at the peril of your life, the Holy Ghost calls you a 
martyr, whether you ever seal your faith with your 
blood or not. The Scriptures positively confirm the 
conclusion that all except the martyrs will sleep on in 
the sepulchral dust till the great white throne shall 
set and the final resurrection shall supervene. 

CHAPTER XIV 

The brutal outrages of Satan and his satellites de- 
moniacal and human, will sink into oblivion, felici- 
tously forgotten amid the glory that shall cover the 
whole earth. The powers of the earth at this day, in 
the different continents, are about twelve. How con- 
venient for the twelve apostles to encumber the great 
thrones of nations, as Jesus said unto them, "I ap- 
point unto you a kingdom, as My Father hath ap- 
pointed unto Me; that you may sit upon twelve 
thrones ruling the twelve tribes of Israel l" Doubt- 
less the two hundred millions of martyrs will be ex- 
ceedingly prominent in the millennial administration. 



120 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

CHAPTER XVI 

At the end of the tribulation the millennial will at 
once be ushered in, bringing back the halcyon times 
of Edenic prosperity, purity, and glory. 

NOTES BY COMPILER 
And at that immediate time the glorious King of 
kingdoms comes with His glorified bride and takes 
possession of this world. And Jesus and His angels 
and His glorified bride will evangelize the world. 
The bright angels will go out and whole nations will 
be converted in a day, and they will set up kingdoms 
on this earth and there will be kings, rulers and 
officers. Jesus and His glorified bride will rule and 
reign victorious over the whole world without a devil 
to hinder. The earth will be belted with celestial 
glories from pole to pole; and all the satanic atmos- 
phere that envelopes this earth, and all viciousness 
will be taken out of all animals. The wolf and fatted 
calf will lie down together. The lion will eat straw 
and a little child shall lead them. Tigers and all 
vicious animals will be like the lamb. All poisonous 
insects of every kind will be taken away with Satan. 

The earth will be re-enveloped in the heavenly at- 
mosphere and celestialized and beautified, and there 



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will be no biting* frost; the poles will be like the 
equator. The desert will blossom like the garden of 
Eden. All vile thistles and weeds will disappear with 
Satan, for nothing bad can exist in this heavenly 
atmosphere, only that which is good can thrive 
and flourish, and we presume that all good 
plants will spring up for man and beast, volun- 
tarily, and doubtless a thousand different fruits and 
plants we know nothing about now of the most ex- 
cellent quality will spring up and grow all over that 
heavenly world like our evil weeds and thistles grow 
here now. 

The hot and chilly winds will cease; all intelligence 
of humanity will be more even ; man will work for his 
neighbor. The world will be back in its Edenic state, 
without a devil; and with all the intelligence that 
God wants humanity to have, higher and greater than 
it has ever been known in this world. The people will 
live to the ages of ten hundred years, like the people of 
the Antediluvian age or will live to the end of the mil- 
lennial reign. The good will be translated alive. Sick- 
ness, pain and disease and death will vanish with 
Satan. The world will be a Godly paradise 
and peace will reign supreme. And as we are in that 



122 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

heavenly atmosphere, all the desires and imagina- 
tions and thoughts of our hearts will be continually 
good and Godward, filled with the Holy Spirit con- 
stantly. We will be blessed with more than we could 
ask or think. But the people are still in a state of 
probation and possibly could fall. 

"I know that my Redeemer . . . shall stand at 

the latter day upon the earth, and though after my 

skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall 
I see God" (Job. xix:25, 26). 

"His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount 
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east" 
(Zech. xiv:4). 

"The Lord shall be king over all the earth " (Zech. 
xiv:9). 

"The Lord alone shall be exalted in that day" (Isa. 
ii:ll). 

"He shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment 
and justice on the earth" (Jer. xxiii:5, 6, with II Sam. 
viii:15, and I Kings x:9). 

"All kings shall fall down before Him, all nations 
shall serve Him" (Psa. lxxii:ll). 



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"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and 
their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift 
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war 
any more" (Isa. ii:4). 

"And they shall build homes, and inhabit them; 
and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of 
them" (Isa. lxv:20, 21). 

"The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leop- 
ard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the 
young lion and the fatling together, and a little child 
shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall 
feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and 
the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the young 
child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned 
child shall put his hand on the hole of the cockatrice's 
den" (Isa. xi:6-8). 

According to the Scriptures, such will be the Mil- 
lennium. We behold its glory, in the personal and 
visible presence of the King. Shall we not look for- 
ward towards that day with glad anticipation? Let 
us watch and pray that we may hasten the coming 
of Jesus. 



124 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XIV 

When we contemplate, not only the perfection, but 
the magnitude and diversity of the millennial admin- 
istration, we must wake up to the fact that quite an 
extensive judicial diagnosis and distribution will be 
necessary to prepare the members of the bridehood to 
understand, assume, and fulfill the diversified offices 
in the coming kingdom. Be assured, no interest, how- 
ever small, will be overlooked by the transfigured 
custodians of the glorious theocracy, which shall belt 
the globe from the rising to the setting sun in the 
good time coming. The present age is significantly 
called " night' ' in the apostolic Epistles. During the 
long night of six thousand years, oh, how Satan and 
his myrmidons have lacerated, abused, and impov- 
erished this earth! They have barbarically worn out 
the fertile soils and exposed the valuable lands to 
deluging rains, which have washed them into chasms, 
thus transforming great regions to deserts. All these 
waste lands will be restored and transformed into 
fruitful gardens of the Lord. Thus the members of 
the bridehood, by their immortal sagacity and loving 
presence, must superintend ten thousand interests in 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 125 

every land and clime. When Christ descends to enter 
upon His millennial reign, He will be accompanied by 
His bride, thoroughly equipped, organized, posted and 
ready, in perfect order, to take possession of every 
nation under heaven, and conduct the millennial ad- 
ministration, eliciting the administration of angels 
and archangels. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 

ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XX— SATAN'S 

POST-MILLENNIAL INVASION AND 

FINAL DEFEAT 

NOTES BY COMPILER 

Satan must now be turned loose — to tempt and try 
the people in the millennial world before they can enter 
the Holy City. 

The millennial ages have flown. A thousand years 
of Paradisian prosperity and happiness have rolled 
away. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of earth have 
never heard the grim tocsin of war, the balmy breezes 
of universal peace, laden with the aroma of perennial 
fruits and flowers, having circled the globe a thousand 
years. All the theaters have been turned into 
Churches, the saloons into depositories for Bibles and 



126 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Holiness books, the race-fields and penitentiaries into 
Holiness camp-grounds. Long ago the bloody mem- 
ories of sin, darkness, trouble, sorrow, death and 
damnation have sunk into oblivion, eternally eclipsed 
by the effulgent glories of the millennial reign. Earth 
is basking in the sunshine of heaven, not dreaming 
that she will ever sorrow again. Why did God let 
the devil out of hell? 

A thousand years have rolled away; meanwhile, 
millennial glory has belted the globe from the rising 
of the sun to his going down. Generation after gen- 
eration has brightened the world with their holy lives, 
and swept into heaven with a tremendous boom, thus 
populating the city of God with the teeming millions 
of the millennial world. Dog-fennel and pennyroyal 
have overgrown the road to hell. Meanwhile, Satan 
is muttering in the deep, dark dungeon of the pan- 
demonium: "Yes, Son of God, of course you can 
have everything your own way while you keep me 
bound with this chain in the gloomy old prison of the 
bottomless pit. I dare you to let me out! I will 
show you that the boasted religion of all these Holi- 
ness fanatics, whose roaring shouts have been my con- 
stant annoyance the last thousand years, is all hypo- 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 127 

critical bosh. Just let me out; give me a tilt at that 
old world, and I can upset the whole compoodle. ,, 
Do you not see that it will be for the glory of Christ 
to let him try his hand? What floods of light, glory, 
and consolation have swept down the ages, emanating 
from the terrible afflictions of Job, when God turned 
him over to the devil to test the solidity of his re- 
ligion! So will the glory of God flash out with un- 
precedented brilliancy from Satan's final assault on 
humanity, and move down the ages of eternity with 
incessantly accumulating luster. 

We see from this verse that Satan's army, with 
which he essays to conquer the world, is made up of 
Gog and Magog. Now let us see who they are. In 
Noah's family originated the trinity of races. Ham 
in Hebrew means black; Shem, red; and Japheth, 
white. Upon the subsidence of the Flood, Noah di- 
vided the world among his three sons, giving Ham 
Africa, Shem Asia, and Japheth Europe. Gog and 
Magog are only spoken of in this passage, Gen 10th, 
and Ezek. 38th. Gog means king, and Magog means 
the kingly people ; i. e., the nobility. Gen 10th notifies 
us that they are the children of Japheth, the ancestor 
of all the white people. In Ezek. 38th they are elab- 



128 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

orately mentioned as resident in Russia. There is too 
much religion in the world, after millennial holiness 
has belted the globe a thousand years, for Satan to 
attack it as a roaring lion. Meanwhile, the tide of 
millennial glory is moving around the world with 
unabated momentum, and not a human being is 
dreaming of Satan's awful exit from the bottomless 
pit, and his impending raid into Immanual's kingdom. 
Behold, Diabolus evacuates the pandemonium, trans- 
forms himself into a great political and military 
leader, like Napoleon Bonaparte — perhaps in the very 
person of the Russian Czar — enters this world with 
royal pomp and pageantry, everywhere haranguing 
the multitude, aspiring to captivate them by his 
learned and eloquent speeches and disaffect them 
toward King Immanual, and render them dissatisfied 
with His administration, at the same time doing his 
utmost to persuade them to revolt and set up an in- 
dependent government, in which he offers them the 
most perfect freedom, as well as the grandest official 
emoluments. He enjoys the wonderful convenience 
of locomotion at lightning speed. (Luke 18:10.) He 
finds multitudes of followers among all the Japhethic 
— i. e., white — races, especially in Russia. It is a sig- 
nificant fact, at the present day, that the Japhetic 



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races rule the world. The great princes, potentates, 
millionaires, gold-bugs, and railroad kings are white 
men. With no devil to lead them, they quietly submit 
during the long ages of the millennial reign. Mean- 
while, they muse much on their illustrious ancestry, 
who possessed the money and ruled the world. Now 
Satan arouses them by his blandishing speeches, and 
inflates them with glowing aspirations to regain their 
lost power and rule the world again. You must re- 
member that the millennial generations will be born 
with depraved hearts, as we are. In the absence of 
the devil to stir that depravity, and actuated by the 
transfigured agencies of saving grace, they will be 
converted before they lose their infantile justification, 
and sanctified before they backslide. Hence a gigan- 
tic Christianity will fill the world. When Satan comes 
out of hell he makes his adroit appeals to this heredi- 
tary depravity. With paradoxical expedition he 
traverses all nations, tip-toeing and vociferating the 
eloquent appeals of his stentorian voice in the ears 
of countless multitudes. You must remember, at that 
time the world will have a tremendous population — 
ten, and perhaps a hundred, times as large as at the 
present day. Among the descendants of the old nabob 
families of the different white races, he receives a 



130 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

large following; but among the Shemites and Hamites 
he receives no response. There are at present three 
hundred millions of negroes in Africa. Doubtless, by 
the close of the millennium they will number three 
thousand millions. The negro is intuitively more re- 
ligious than the white man. When all the negroes in 
Africa have shouted full salvation a thousand years, 
the Dark Continent checkered with railroads and il- 
luminated with Holiness camp-grounds and colleges, 
those grand old Ethiopians will stand flatfooted, throw 
their big mouths open and shout the devil out of 
countenance, till he will be glad to retreat crestfallen 
from the land of Ham, without a single follower. 
The Mongolian races, at the present day, are esti- 
mated at eight hundred millions. They constitute 
the mighty nations of the Orient. Presumptively, 
they will number eight thousand millions by the close 
of the millennium. Immutability is the striking pecu- 
liarity of the Orientals. When the almond-eyed 
Chinaman has rung out the hallelujahs of entire sanc- 
tification a thousand years, he will not be captured 
by Satan's sophistical promises to make him a man- 
darin. Hence, the devil will make a total failure with 
the numberless sons of Shem, who people the mighty 
East. 



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War is something new in the world. Not a gun 
has been fired in the last thousand years. From the 
days of Peter the Great, who predicted that the bear 
should lie down on the banks of the Indian Ocean, 
Russia has had her eye on the Holy Land. 

Satan now musters the innumerable hosts of Gog 
and Magog, and coils them around Jerusalem like a 
huge boa-constrictor. By the close of the millennium, 
doubtless Jerusalem, the capital of the millennial king- 
dom, will be the metropolis of the world. The site 
is the finest on the globe for the metropolitanship of 
the world. It is the geographical center of the six 
grand divisions of the earth — the most accessible spot 
beneath the skies. The very earth rests on the finest 
building material in the world, and at the same time 
the inexhaustible fertilizer of soils. I doubt not but 
at that time Jerusalem will extend over the vast in- 
terior highways of Palestine. The people are not 
alarmed. The King of Glory reigns on the earth. 
Satan's army encompasses Jerusalem with impunity, 
inspired by their audacious leader, sanguine of suc- 
cess, as they see no enemy arrayed against them. A 
thousand years ago the Lord's people transformed all 
their military equipage into farming implements, and 



132 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

committed the keeping of their country to the glorious 
King. Their faith is unshaken by the clangor of arms 
and the glitter of a million swords in the splendor of 
a Palestinian sun. The Eastern skies are illuminated 
with the gorgeous eclat of Satan's royal army. The 
devil, from his magnificent portable pavilion, issues 
command through a thousand swift couriers to put 
the battle in array against the holy city. At that 
moment Omnipotence interposes, fire comes down from 
heaven, and utterly consumes Satan's army. 

Now Satan is again arrested and cast into the lake 
of fire, this interposition giving a final termination 
to his post-millennial and last campaign against this 
world. Never again will he be permitted to put his 
foot on it. You see that it will be much for the glory 
of Christ to let the devil test the millennial world. 
He would always have said that he could abduce them 
into rebellion against God if an opportunity had been 
given. Floods of light and truth emanate from Sa- 
tan's post-millennial campaign against this world. 

(a) As the long war between Christ and Satan is 
destined to wind up, the problem of his final destiny 
presents itself for solution. Here we have an irrefu- 
table confirmation of his utter and hopeless irreclaim- 



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ability. After suffering the unutterable horrors of a 
hell-prison a thousand years, we find him just as 
proud, arrogant, ambitious, and bloodthirsty as when 
he ruled the world with a rod of iron. With what 
promptitude and alacrity he proceeds at once to ruin 
the world again! 

(b) It is also a confirmation of hereditary de- 
pravity, even surviving the swelling floods of millen- 
nial grace a thousand years. This is evidenced by 
the mighty revolt of Gog and Magog. 

(c) It is also a confirmation of the wonderful tri- 
umphs of millennial grace, in the fact that Satan 
makes a total failure with all the world, except Gog 
and Magog. 

(d) The divine intervention which pours fire on 
Satan's army besieging Jerusalem, and utterly ex- 
terminating them, involves the consolatory assur- 
ance that God will never again permit Satan to pre- 
vail against the human race. 

THE FINAL JUDGMENT. (11:15.) 

The great white throne now dazzles the gaze of 
earth's teeming millions. The wicked multitudes who 
have lived on the earth in all bygone ages now re- 



134 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

spond to the archangel's trump and come forth. We 
have here no account of the Lord's coming, because 
He has been here ever since the beginning of the 
millennium. How long the post-millennial ages will 
last we can have no definite idea. Hence, perhaps the 
millennial glory will shine and bless the world long 
ages after the expiration of the scheduled thousand 
years. Isa. 53:8: "Who shall declare His genera- 
tion? for He was cut off out of the land of the 
living.' ' In this chapter a millennial Jew stands on 
the heights of prophetic illumination, looks back two 
thousand years, bewails the blindness of his people 
in the first coming of his Lord, which utterly disquali- 
fied them to recognize Him, but left them to the 
caprices of the devil who infatuated them to nai] 
Him to the cross. "Generation" here means race or 
posterity. 

"Who shall declare His Generation?" means that 
neither man nor angel can enumerate the mighty 
multitudes of God's spiritual children in Christ. We 
are living in the age of darkness, sin, Satan, and 
damnation, in which hell is devouring the multi- 
tudes of earth, and Jesus says: "The saved are few" 
(Luke 13:23). Hence the present age is hell's great 



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harvest. The millennium will be heaven's great har- 
vest. Such will be the flooded populations and the 
sweeping tide of salvation inundating the world, in 
the blissful absence of the devil, through the long run 
of the millennial age, that in the grand finale, when 
the infinitesimal multitudes of Adam's race shall 
stand before the great white throne, the innumerable 
hosts, saved by the triumphant Christ, will so vastly 
outnumber the motley rabble of Satan's conquest as 
to throw it into eternal eclipse. As the Son of God 
will encumber the final judgment-throne, this notable 
epoch will produce no interregnum in His contin- 
uous reign from His descension on the cloud at 
the beginning of the millennium, and in no way con- 
flict with the eternal perpetuity of His reign on 
earth. Christ came to destroy the works of the devil 
and externally expel him from this world, as well as 
the universe of God. 

"The books were opened." These are the books 
of record in the plural number, because they are 
many. They contain the record of all the sins 
committed by the wicked, and all the good works of 
the righteous. Neither the sins of the righteous nor 
the good deeds of the wicked will be mentioned in 



136 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

the judgment. The popular idea of this judgment 
going through in twenty-four hours is a great mis- 
take. Day, in the Bible, means a period. God will 
take plenty of time. What is the utility of this 
judgment? It is demonstrative of human character, 
and vindicatory of the Divine administration. God 
does not need it to find out what to do with you. 
Every soul in the universe is either condemned or 
acquitted every moment of its existence. Your con- 
demnation dates from your sin. The infinite dis- 
similitude which characterizes the whole will be the 
degrees of punishment in hell and reward in heaven. 
The benignity of God requires the presence of the 
entire human race, and especially all of the guardian 
angels, in this final adjudication of all human des- 
tiny. Human courts, in all ages, have con- 
demned the innocent, and honored the guilty. This 
is the grand appellate court of the universe, which 
will reverse all the maladministrations of all ages, 
and rectify all wrongs, and settle all issues forever. 
Here every character will be thoroughly ventilated, 
elucidated, and illustrated, so every soul will receive 
his real status and appropriate attitude for all eter- 
nity. 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 137 

Book of life is in the singular number. It is sim- 
ply a roll of the names of all the saved people. 
Doubtless this book will be very voluminous. Does 
the Holy Ghost now witness to you that your name 
is written in this book? Here we are informed that 
all whose names are not found superscribed in this 
book will be cast into the lake of fire. We are noti- 
fied that death and hell are also cast into the lake of 
fire. The Bible tells us that hell is now beneath the 
surface of the earth. Geology reveals that the entire 
globe is liquid fire except the solid crust, about forty 
miles in thickness, which forms the exterior. Hence 
science fully corroborates the Bible on the location 
of hell. Since this earth, with its entire environments, 
is to be completely expurgated from sin and all of its 
contaminations, we readily see the pertinency in the 
removal of hell from the earth interior. Our Savior, 
in His gospels, frequently alludes to the location of 
the fiery lake in outer darkness. The Greek, "To 
nothos to exooteron; i. e., the darkness which is 
without. Now where is that darkness containing the 
lake of fire, into which the devil and all his followers 
are to be cast? Telescopic observation has revealed 
one hundred and seventeen millions of suns already 
discovered in the celestial universe. Evidently our 



138 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

sun gives good light at Neptune, three thousand mil 
lions of miles distant. Then to what distance will the 
combined illumination of one hundred and seven- 
teen millions of suns transmit light? The mathemat- 
ical genius of an archangel can never answer this 
question. The distance is absolutely not only inex- 
pressible, but inconceivable. An angel, flying with the 
velocity of lightning, could not traverse that space 
in a thousand millions of years. Hence we see the 
devil and his followers can never return to disturb the 
peaceful universe of the Almighty. Then how can they 
ever get there? The Omnipotent arm can transmit them 
thither in the twinkling of an eye. Thus you see 
how the Omnipotent Savior is preparing utterly and 
eternally to banish sin and all its votaries from the 
universe of God. While the judgment is in progress, 
the earth will be passing through a series of purga- 
torial cremations. (2 Pet. 3:10.) This world was 
converted in Noah's time, when it was expurgated 
of all sinners and baptized with water. That is not 
sufficient for its admission into heaven. It must 
receive the second blessing and be baptized with 
fire. This fiery baptism will thoroughly sanctify it, 
not only from all sin actual and original, but from 
all the effects of sin. The Creator will again resume 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 139 

His work amid these potent fiery agencies, re-create 
the world, and transform it into a celestial sphere. 

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Book V. 



NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COM 

MENTS ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XXI— 

HEAVENLY STATE OF THIS WORLD 

"I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH; 
FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST 
EARTH HAD PASSED AWAY, AND THERE WAS 
NO MORE SEA. The millennial state of Edenic 
beauty and glory has come and gone, popu- 
lating heaven with multiplied millions. Subsequently 
a great change has been wrought. Not only the 
sanctifying fires have done their work, but creative 
Omnipotence has supervened, transforming this world, 
with its atmospheric environments, into a heaven. 
Time, that noted parenthesis in boundless eternity, 
has come and gone. The mediatorial kingdom, recon- 



142 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

tiling man to God, restoring order in the celestial 
universe, expurgating all sin, and externally banish- 
ing Satan and his votaries into outer darkness, has 
come and gone. The period of mortality and human 
probation is now numbered with the ages of bygone 
eternity. The grand restitutionary work of Christ, 
for which He evacuated the effulgent throne to 
suffer and die, is now complete; therefore, like a 
proconsul sent out from Rome to restore a revolted 
province, He now surrenders up His mediatorial 
kingdom to the Father, that God may be all in all 
(1 Cor. 15:28.) 

"There is no more sea." At present the sea occu- 
pies about three-fourths of the surface of the earth, 
the icy poles and burning deserts about another 
eighth, leaving but one-eighth for the occupancy of 
earth's teeming millions. We readily account for the 
absence of the sea in the celestial earth. Water is 
composed of oxygen and hydrogen. The latter is the 
most combustible element, and the former the great 
supporter of combustion. A sufficient intensity of 
heat will decompose the oceanic waters and utterly 
consume them. Thus the cremation of the earth will 
remove oceans, seas, icy poles, and transform burn- 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 143 

ing deserts into fruitful fields. 

" Behold, I make all things new." John certifies to 
the complete renovation of the earth, with its environ- 
ments. In the creation of all worlds, the heavenly 
state is the ultimatum. This earth has had a most 
wonderful history as the battle-field of God's universe. 
Through all the flight of eternal ages, Earth will be 
celebrated in the history, poetry, and romance of all 
worlds as the battle-ground where the sons of light 
fought the powers of darkness under the heroic 
leadership of Prince Immanuel. While Earth will be 
the peculiar possession of Immanuel's soldiers (Matt. 
5:4) you must not regard it as a prison in any sense 
whatever. Mortality and probation will exist only in 
the memory of the past. This world will be ours as 
a soldiers' bounty, conferred as a memento of our 
fidelity and valor during that terrible exterminating 
war which the Son of Man waged against sin and 
Satan. We will enjoy our transfigured bodies, with 
facilities of lightning locomotion (Luke 10:18) while 
it will be our delectable privilege to wing our flight 
from world to world, exploring with enthusiasm the 
wonders of Omnipotence, eternally contemplating His 
ineffable glory, making wonderful proficiency in the 



144 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

universities of heaven, under the leadership of Adam, 
Enoch, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Paul, and 
all tne apostles, mighty hosts of martyrs, unfallen 
angels and archangels, Gabriel and Michael. We will 
doubtless receive, to our delight, many solicitations to 
serve as angelic escorts back to this world, so cele- 
brated in the literature of heaven. 

Evidently the inhabitable earth will be ten times as 
capacious as at present. As we shall wing our flight 
around the globe, accompanied by angel bands, the 
whole earth will be radiant with celestial glory incon- 
ceivable in our mortal and probationary investiture. 
In this bright celestial state this earth will shine and 
shout forever. The popular impression that this world 
will cease to exist has simply originated from a wrong 
translation of aioon in the New Testament. It does 
not mean world, cosmos having that meaning. It 
simply means time, or age. Hence, it should read, 
"end of the age", or, "end of time. ,, The last chap- 
ters in the Bible come in after time has flown, and 
forever been superseded by eternity. But you see 
this world not only continues, but is sanctified, made 
new, and transformed into a heavenly sphere. 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 145 

"I saw the New Jerusalem coming down out of 
heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride 
adorned for her husband.' ' We find (Rev. 19:7-11) 
the marriage of our Lord and His Bride at the begin- 
ning of the millennial reign. During the millennium 
and post-millennial ages, constituting the Paradisian 
state of the world, the members of the bridehood 
were all at their posts. Of course, they all accompany 
their glorious King on His great white throne in the 
ethereal firmament during the final judgment, ren- 
dering valuable and important service. During the 
period of earth's cremation, sanctification, and celes- 
tialization, of course they are absent, up in heaven. 
Now we see them coming down to take possession 
and forever enjoy this world in its heavenly state. 
We find here a double signification of "New Jerusa- 
lem/ ' It means the substantial real city. It also 
means the members of the bridehood, who inhabit the 
city. Hence the New Jerusalem is the bride of Christ 
and the mother of God's children. (Gal. 4:25). 

These verses clearly and unmistakably reveal and 
vividly describe the heavenly state of this world. 
How people have read their Bibles over and over, 
and still believe that this earth will be burned up 



146 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

and blotted out of existence, is paradoxical in the 
extreme; because you have here a positive revelation 
that God will remake this earth, transforming it into 
a heavenly world, in which there will be no sorrow, 
pain, nor tears. Hence you see mortality and pro- 
bation are out of the question, and heaven's ineffable 
glory will shine and shout forever. 

"He that conquereth shall inherit these things, 
and I will be God into Him, and he shall be a Son 
unto Me." In this verse, the Holy Spirit unequiv- 
ocally and irrevocably confirms the glorious and 
consolatory doctrine of the saints' everlasting inher- 
itance of this glorified earth throughout the flight 
of the heavenly ages. The saints possess very little 
of this world at the present day, but rest assured 
they will have it all in the good time coming. They 
will soon possess the millennial world, and, in God's 
good time, this earth, re-created and transformed 
into a glorious heaven, to shine and shout throughout 
all eternity. Oh, who would not forsake all to follow 
Jesus! 

"But to the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abomin- 
able, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the 
idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake burning 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 147 

with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." 
You see this long, black catalogue, exhibitory of all 
the crimes that ever blackened earth and crowded 
hell. Don't forget that cowardice heads the list. 
Why is this? Because cowardice sends more people 
to hell than any other sin in the category of pande- 
monium. Were it not for cowardice, people could 
get rid of all their dark iniquities, though hideous 
enough to make a demon blush. Why don't you 
come to the altar and seek the Lord till you find Him 
in a sky-blue conversion? Cowardice, is the answer. 
Why don't you seek entire sanctification with all 
your heart till it comes on you like a sunburst from 
the throne? Cowardice solves the whole problem. 
If you are not brave enough to fight a regiment of 
devils, and brook the contempt of earth and hell, 
you will never get to heaven. Is it possible you are 
going to make your bed in hell-fire for sheer cowardice? 

THE CELESTIAL CAPITAL 

We now reach the closing scene of this wonderful 
prophetical panorama. One of the seven angels having 
the seven last vials of wrath serves as John's escort 
to the summit of a lofty mountain, from whose dizzy 
apex the illuminated eye takes a view of this won- 



148 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

derful metropolis descending out of heaven from God. 
John's description, which is doubtless veritable and 
real, sounds like the wildest hyperbole. The material 
of the city consists of the most valuable gems that 
ever decked a monarch's crown, — golden streets, 
pearly gates, and jasper walls. This wonderful city 
is a perfect cube, fifteen hundred miles long, wide 
and high. The material is transparent, so immortal 
eyes interpenetrate this mighty emporium, unob- 
structed by intervening streets. We find the apostles 
and prophets, representative of both dispensations, ex- 
ceedingly prominent in this city. All this is in glo- 
rious harmony with its bridehood identity. We have 
here the blessed assurance that all whose names are 
superscribed in the Lamb's book of life shall have 
a welcome in this wonderful city. I have seen the 
important cities of America, Europe, Asia, and 
Africa. God, in mercy, grant that my feet shall 
one day tread the golden streets of the New Jeru- 
salem! John calls it the Holy City. Hence you 
must be holy, if you ever enter it. It is very conso- 
latory to us to know that the city of God will come 
within the range of distinct visibility from this world. 
Will it not be on this earth? I do not so understand 
the revelation. An object fifteen hundred miles long, 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 149 

wide and high, consisting of the most radiant gems, 
diamonds, rubies and all manner of precious stones, 
radiating and flashing their glorious light through 
the ethereal void, would certainly be visible at a 
great distance. Remember, John found it necessary 
to ascend that lofty mountain in order to see it. 
What is this city? It is the glorious capital of the 
heavenly universe, and, of course, the residence of 
our blessed Heavenly Father. On what does it stand? 
It does not stand on anything. It is itself the center 
of universal gravitation. Hence it does not need any- 
thing on which to rest. During the reign of sin and 
Satan, it is withdrawn far away from this poor, dark 
world. After the grand and glorious restitutionary 
work of Christ is fully consummated, sin and sinners 
forever removed, earth and atmosphere gloriously 
sanctified, and all renovated in the beauty of heavenly 
investiture, and committed to saints and angels, then 
the very metropolis of the glory-world comes very 
nigh, and brightens earth and sky with her unwaning 
effulgence. Of course, the cremation of the earth 
will destroy the cities, with all other works of human 
art. This glorious ethereal metropolis is called the 
NEW JERUSALEM, in contradistinction to old Jeru- 
salem, which now stands on Mts. Zion, Moriah, 



150 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Bezetha, and Acra, and is destined to be so magni- 
tudinous, conspicuous and influential during the mil- 
lennial ages. Hypothetically this newly-created celes- 
tial world, densely populated with saints and angels, 
will not build cities; but the countless millions, bask- 
ing in the glory of unadulterated bliss, amid the 
grand effulgence of this ethereal Jerusalem, will enjoy 
and patronize it as the metropolis of the whole earth. 

"The nations shall walk through its light, and the 
kings of the earth bring their glory into it." 

"They shall bring the glory and honor of the 
nations into it," In the glorious and triumphant resti- 
tution of God's saints back to this world, after it shall 
have been transferred into a beautiful celestial sphere, 
doubtless the nations will reconstruct their former 
identities in their reoccupancy of the earth. We see 
from these Scriptures the beautiful conservatism of all 
nations of the New Jerusalem, through the onward 
flight of eternal ages. "For night shall not be there." 
This city is the metropolis of the great King, the 
center of universal gravitation, and the capital of the 
boundless celestial empire. Of course there will be no 
night, for God Himself will be there, and He is 
original light. All other luminaries shine by His 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 151 

command. Not only will this wonderful city, fifteen 
hundred miles long, wide, and high, be ineffably glo- 
rious with the divine illumination, but the unutterable 
effulgence will irradicate this and other celestial 
worlds with light and glory, forever expelling darkness, 
and verifying the promise, " Night shall not be there/ ' 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER XXII 

The River of Life here described is in the City 
delineated in the preceding chapter. 

The Tree of Life is also in the city. The twelve 
manner of fruits indicate the wonderful diversity of 
heavenly fruition, perfectly adapting and congenializ- 
ing the heavenly state to every possible idiosyncrasy, 
social, intellectual, educational, and spiritual, apper- 
taining to the entire heavenly host, from the most un- 
cultured Hottentot to the champion apostle and the 
brightest archangel. The leaves of the tree are for 
the health of the nations. Healing, in the English, 
is misleading. The Greek Thereapeion is not a par- 
ticiple, but a noun. There are no diseases in heaven 
to be healed. This is a revelation against the prob- 
ability of apostasy from the heavenly state. Lucifer 



152 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

and the angels fell long ago. This was before their 
probation expired. Hence there is no probability that 
any of us will ever apostatize after we get to heaven. 
Sickness is the invariable precursor of death. If no 
ailment supervenes, death will never come. The Tree 
of Life is the symbol of perpetual immortality. Mean- 
while, the very leaves of the tree are effectual palla- 
dium against the slightest ingress of spiritual ail- 
ment. This tree is a beautiful evergreen, forever ex- 
hibiting its magnificent, unbrageous foliage, demon- 
strating to the multiplied millions of immortal eyes 
the transcendent reality that health never wanes, 
sickness never comes, and death is unknown. Hence 
the leaves of the tree, in their fadeless beauty, are a 
universal guarantee that perfect health is the con- 
stant and everlasting blessing of the glorified state. 

"And there shall be no more CURSE/ ' This forever 
settles the question of future probation. If there is 
any probation in the transfigured state, it will never 
be forfeited by transgression, as in THAT CASE the 
curse would inevitably supervene. "The throne of 
God and the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will 
serve Him, and they shall see His FACE." This is a 
confirmation of the foregone conclusion that the New 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 153 

Jerusalem, poised in the firmament above this world, 
having reached the glorified state, is none other than 
the city of GOD, where he in His glory occupies the 
effulgent throne of the UNIVERSE, and the Lamb 
that was slain and that liveth AGAIN shall FOCAL- 
IZE the adoration and admiration of glorified saints 
forever. Oh, how unutterably blessed to draw near 
and behold His face, all radiant with the love that 
brought HIM from heaven to die for us poor sinners! 
"His NAME shall be in their FOREHEADS." The 
glorious experience of entire sanctification is this day 
notable for its efficiency in the superscription of the 
divine cognomen on the countenance. If, in these 
mortal tenements, the divine glory so radiates from 
the countenance as to enable us to read people like 
we read books, who can calculate the brilliancy of 
that splendor which shall beam from the physiog- 
nomies of the glorified saints, illuminated by the 
effulgent presence of God and the Lamb? 

"Night shall not be there; they do not need the 
light of a lamp and the light of a sun, because the 
Lord God shineth upon them, and they shall reign 
unto eternities of eternities/ ' This verse climaxes 
John's glowing description of the heavenly state. He 



154 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

winds up with the affirmation of the eternal reign of 
the saints. Not only this world marching on to the 
heavenly state, but one billion and one hundred and 
seventy millions of other worlds have been at least 
faintly apprehended by telescopic observation. Who 
can anticipate to what extent our Lord will use us 
in the administration, culture, and evangelization of 
these innumerable worlds? This glorious prophetical 
panorama winds up with these wonderful words: 
"Eis tous aioonas toon aioonoon;" i. e., "Unto eter- 
nities of eternities. ' ' These profoundly significant 
words define the reign of the saints in glory, the ex- 
istence of God, and the duration of the lost and 
the wicked. Hence you see the ridiculous and non- 
sensical absurdity of Universalian dogmatism, which 
would refute the eternity of future punishment. 

Thus winds up the wonderful panoramic, prophetic 
visions, which John saw on the Isle of Patmos. It is 
also the valedictory prophecy of the whole world, 
the celestial city and the glorified earth climaxes all. 
We now have fifteen more verses, constituting John 
apologue. 

"The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets/ ' The 
prophet in all dispensations is the called and sent 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 155 

revelator of God's truth. God imparts to each one of 
His prophets a spirit peculiar to the work He has 
called him to do. Hence the infinite diversity of 
prophetical idiosyncrasy. The called and sent blood- 
washed, fire-baptized preachers of the gospel are 
God's prophets in the present age. Therefore, God 
is now showing them "the things which quickly come 
to pass." 

"Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keep- 
eth the words of this book of prophesy ;" i. e., the 
Book of Revelation. Most people take but little in- 
terest in Revelation. Of course, they forfeit this 
blessing. Are you on the constant outlook for the 
Lord's coming? 

Here again John wants to worship the Apocalyptic 
Angel, of course misapprehending him for God. 

Here we have God's positive prohibition of angel- 
worship. It is simply another form of idolatry. This 
prohibition sweeps Romanism from the field. 

Revelation has been a sealed book for ages, for 
long centuries even rejected, repudiated as spurious, 
denied a place in the sacred canon, and laid on the 
shelf. At the present day God is giving His people 



156 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

wonderful light on this book of mysteries. "Oh, how 
He is lighting it up to the "Holiness people!" The 
value of this book to the present generation is actu- 
ally inestimable. Peter, James, Jude, Matthew, Mark, 
Luke, and Paul have all left us most brilliant prophe- 
cies, revealing the wonders of the latter days. But 
John transcendently climaxes all. But a youth when 
called to the apostleship, he enjoyed the nearest prox- 
imity to Jesus, leaning on His breast. He was per- 
mitted to live a whole generation after all the other 
apostles were dead and gone. Hence he enjoyed 
wonderful experimental maturity. His spiritual illu- 
mination was transcendent, and his prophetic inter- 
penetration and perspicacity illimitable. All his apos- 
tolic comrades prophesied tersely and isolatedly. John 
gives us the grand and wonderful panorama, sweeping 
down the intervening ages, not only to the end of the 
present Gentile Dispensation, when the Lord shall come 
in His glory and reign in triumph through the millen- 
nial ages, culminating in the final judgment, the earth's 
cremation, and the end of time; but he sweeps right 
on, luminously revealing the re-creation of the earth 
and its ethereal environments, the glory of the heav- 
enly state, when this world shall have been re-annexed 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 157 

to the celestial empire, conferred upon the saints as a 
soldier's bounty, reminiscent of fidelity and valor dur- 
ing Immanuel's exterminating war against sin and 
Satan ; the descension of the New Jerusalem into visible 
proximity, and the reign of the saints through all eter- 
nity. 

"Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, 
to give unto each as his work is." While our work is 
not the condition of our salvation, yet it is the measure 
of our reward in heaven. Consequently , the rewards 
of the righteous and the retributions of the wicked 
will be as diversified as their lives in this world. This 
declaration of the Almighty should present every con- 
ceivable incentive to do our utmost to help Jesus save 
the world. The smallest deeds of philanthropy, mercy 
and grace will receive an abundant reward in the good 
time coming. We should all substitute the expectation 
of death with the constant outlook for our glorious 
Lord. 

Alpha and Omega are simply the first and last let- 
ters of the Greek alphabet. Christ is first and last in 
the plan of salvation. Himself is our salvation. He is 
all and in all. When you have Him enthroned in your 
heart, you are saved to the uttermost. God help us to 



158 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

rise above creeds and sink out of self into Christ. So 
long as you keep your eye on Jesus, He will keep His 
hand on you. Then neither men nor devils can hurt you. 

The Seven Victories. Rev. Chapter II, pp. 31-32-33. 
In this verse we reach the first overcometh in regenera- 
tion. In the description of these seven Churches we 
have the seven overcomeths ; i. e., the seven victories 
which every soul must gain before it gets to heaven. 
These victories are revealed in the conclusion of the 
Spirit's message to every Church. 

Number two is establishment in regeneration. 

Number three is a glorious case of entire sanctifica- 
tion. In the wilderness, they ate the manna nightly 
falling on the land, which would breed worms and 
spoil in twenty -four hours. Thus the blessings received 
in the justified state are so transitory that we need a 
new one every day. In the sanctified experience, we 
live in the sanctum-sanctorum, where we have con- 
stant access to the manna hidden in the golden pot, 
which always keeps fresh and sweet. The white stone 
symbolizes solidity and purity, and the new name is 
sanctifier. Before we get sanctified, we only know 
Jesus as our Savior. When we enter the Valley of 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 159 

Blessings, so sweet, the Holy Ghost reveals to us the 
Omnipotent Sanctifier. This is victory number four for 
the soul who keeps God's works to the end. God's 
works are regeneration and sanctification. To the soul 
who keeps these works to the end of the Gentile Age, 
till the Lord comes to reign, He will give him the 
morning star; i. e., Himself, to be his glorious King 
forever. 

NOTES TAKEN FROM DR. GODBEY'S COMMENTS 
ON REVELATION, CHAPTER II 

The soul so fortunate as to reach the fifth victory 
is arrayed in white garments, and shall walk with Jesus 
in His millennial glory. Probation passed, he shall 
never forfeit his royal inheritance. 

Victory number six awaits the heroic soul far out 
beyond the millennium, fiery sanctification of the earth, 
its final renovation, and celestialization, when, in the 
oncoming heavenly state, the new Jerusalem shall come 
down to abide forever. 

Here is the seventh and last victory, when Jesus 
shall have completed the mediatorial work, utterly ex- 
terminated sin and expurgated every stain from the 
polluted universe, banished Satan and all of his fol- 



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lowers into the outer darkness, beyond the ultimathule, 
where the combined illumination of one hundred and 
seventeen millions of glowing suns has never shot one 
cheering ray. After the din of battle has forever been 
hushed, and shouts of victory shall ring through one 
billion and one hundred and seventy millions of glo- 
rious celestial worlds, the happy soul that shall have 
reached this seventh overcometh shall be honored with 
a seat on the throne, and a participation of the divine 
administration as the subordinate of the triumphant 
Christ, to reign with Him amid angels and redeemed 
spirits forever and ever. Ten thousand times ten thou- 
sand incentives inspire the immortal soul to run, strive, 
and fight for these seven victories. Seven is the perfect 
number designating Christ Himself. So don't stop with 
sanctification, for that is only victory number three; 
but be a loyal candidate for the seven. Oh, glory to 
God for the seven overcomeths ! 

REVELATION 22 

'lam the root and offspring of David and the bright 
and morning star." 

"And the spirit and the bride say come, and let him 
that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst come, 



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and whosoever will let him take the water of life 
freely.' * 

NOTES BY COMPILER 

Now, my friends, if you have read this little book I 
pray the Lord that many of the words have taken a 
strong hold of your heart and mind and may God help 
you to think and ponder over these things and get a 
higher and better idea of the Lord's plan of redemp- 
tion, and you all have my prayers, that through this 
work the Holy Spirit will show you the way, and the 
right way to the King's highway of Holiness and if 
you do not find the way and you are still in doubt I 
beg of you to put Jesus Christ to a test ; cut loose from 
all your little and big sins and come to Jesus and tell 
him, "Here I am, Lord; take me; I make a full sur- 
render of everything; I will do what you want me to do 
and be what you want me to be," and trust the Lord 
to take you and use you anyway, and promise Him you 
will quit all your sinning and throw to the wind all 
things you have been holding to and do this in great 
earnestness and the Savior will come into your heart. 
Trust him wholly, the same as you would trust your 
own dear Mother. He will not ask you to do anything 



162 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

you can't do any more than your Mother would. For 
he has said/ "Although a mother at times her child 
would forget, yet will I remember you/' This is just 
what I did and the Holy Spirit came into my heart and 
is guiding my life. J. J. MORGAN. 




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Book VI. 



NOTES TAKEN FROM MINISTERS AND BIBLE 
SCHOLARS. 

The commencement of Book 6 is in part a corrobora- 
tion of the five preceding* books, although it produces 
new proof and more light on that Great Meeting in 
the Air. 

The second part of this book is most wonderful. 
Read it all. 

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with 
the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall rise 
first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be 
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet 
the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the 



164 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these 
words/' 1 Thes. 4:16-17-18. 

This heavenly meeting mentioned here in the 
Scripture text will certainly be the most wonderful 
that humanity has ever heard of. All the meetings 
that the Bible tells about are not in comparison to the 
great meeting that will soon take place in the air. 
Since humanity started to live on this earth there 
have been some wonderful meetings. That was a won- 
derful meeting at the time of the flood when all the 
people of the entire antediluvian world collected and 
met on the hill tops and mountain tops and looked 
over that world of water coming higher and higher 
on the hills, with the whole world under water except 
a few mountains and higher hills; this was a most 
wonderful meeting. 

That was a peculiar meeting Abraham had with 
Melchizedek, who was without father or mother, be- 
ginning of life or ending of days, a priest of the most 
high God. He was a personage or an inhabitant from a 
celestial world come down into this sinful world 
to see how poor humanity was really living in Satan's 
kingdom; then Abraham had another most wonderful 
meeting when the two angels met him in his tent door 



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in the heat of the day. Take notice at first Abraham 
thought these two people were his neighbor herds- 
men; they had the appearance of cattlemen not far 
away and seemed to be tired and ordinary men 
dressed in the herdsman fashion and Abraham rather 
insisted on them to tarry and take some refreshments ; 
whether this was the eastern custom caused Abraham 
to act as he did or whether God gave him an inkling 
that these two men were more than they appeared, 
possibly the former and latter both were the real cause 
as the Bible says: "Abraham lifted up his eyes and lo 
two men stood by him and when he saw them he ran 
to meet them from the tent door and Abraham made 
haste and had water brought for them to wash their 
feet; and went into the tent and had Sarah knead fine 
meal and bake a cake and Abraham went out to the 
herd and had a young man dress a fat calf; and Sarah 
cooked it, and Abraham sat it before the men angels 
and they did eat and drink as any other mortal here." 
But prior to this verse above quoted which is Gen. 
chapter 18, verses 1 to 18 of Genesis says, "The Lord ap- 
peared unto Abraham in the plain of Mamre ,, j this 
was certainly a wonderful meeting; that the Great 
Eternal Jehovah and two angels came down and took 
on the appearance of men, with clothing of the cus- 



166 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

torn of the country and talked and ate, then went down 
to visit Lot's family and Lot sat in the Gate of the 
City and saw the angels; thought them two men but 
Lot constrained them to go with him and Lot made 
them a feast and they did eat and laid down and 
stayed all night with Lot. Was not that a wonderful 
meeting? 

There has been but a few angel beings ever come 
down on this sinful earth; but it is here to be seen 
that angels when they come down here have the 
power to show themselves just like the ordinary hu- 
man, dressed in the ordinary style of that day. 

John the Baptist had some wonderful meetings on 
the banks of Jordon, and that was a wonderful meet- 
ing at the Transfiguration of Jesus, Moses and Elijah 
on the mount. 

Another wonderful meeting was at the day of Pen- 
tecost when the Holy Spirit came like a rushing, 
mighty wind and about three thousand souls were con- 
verted and there has been great gatherings both mili- 
tary and Christian all up and down the history of 
this old world. 

But no meeting could begin to compare with this 
most stupendous meeting that is to be soon held in the 



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air when Jesus comes to take up his jewels. It is really 
the grand purpose of all that has been done by all 
Christian generations up to the present time was to 
prepare for the most wonderful meeting in the air. 

Churches were organized and missionaries were 
sent to the ends of the earth. All this was 
done for grand purpose of this great meeting. The 
Great Jehovah saw this and laid his plans before the 
morning stars sang together. 

The second coming of the Lord is the cream and 
emphatic doctrine of the new Testament. It is men- 
tioned and referred to more than two hundred and 
fifty times. 

A wonderful, fine, godly man had visitors one even- 
ing and their conversation drifted on the subject of 
the second coming of Jesus and he asked his guests 
if they thought Christ would come back tonight and 
they all said that they thought not, then he said to 
them, " Watch therefore for ye know not what hour 
your Lord doth come ; therefore be ye also ready for in 
such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh." 
Mat. 22:42-44. 

The idea of people talking about the millennium com- 
ing before Jesus comes; might as well talk of fire in 



168 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

an ice-berg or daylight not coming until the sun slides 
behind the western horizon. 

The glorious millennium can not come until Satan is 
bound and pitched head long into the bottomless pit; 
nothing is more certain than the glory of God will 
cover the earth like the waters cover the seas, but this 
great blessing will not take place until after Jesus 
comes. 

Now I am not in the habit of relating hair-raising 
stories but here is one that shows the average careless- 
ness or blindness of parents. Away down in Florida 
in the timber lived a family; a father, mother and a 
beautiful little eleven-year-old curly-headed boy. One 
bright, warm day a friend came to visit the family and 
after a short visit the friend told of finding a bee-tree 
about a half-mile distant from the home of this family 
and they concluded it would be a fine day for them 
to go out and cut the tree for the honey. The father 
threw his ax on his shoulder and started and the little 
boy said, "Papa, can I go along?' ' The father said, 
"Yes, son, you can go with us." So they went out to 
where the tree was and the father went to work chop- 
ping the tree and after a little while the little boy said, 
"Papa, may I go play in the water in the lagoon?" 



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The father said, "Yes son, but do not go into any 
place where it might look deep ; play close to the bank 
and be careful not to wade out as it might be deep." 
So the little fellow was playing, heaping up sand piles, 
making sand houses, picking shells up and talking and 
singing and all at once the father heard the child cry 
out, "Hurry papa." The father grabbed his ax, 
leaped over logs and ran to the rescue of his child; 
coming to the lagoon he saw the child floundering in 
deep water arms outstretched, with horror on his 
face, and said, "Hurry papa, an alligator has got ahold 
of me." A hideous monster had been sneaking around 
and hungry, lank and vicious had come up slyly while 
the child was playing and grabbed him by the leg. 
The father jumped into the lagoon and was about to 
drive his ax into the monster's head when he suddenly 
turned and lashed the water with his huge tail, like 
the screw of a great steamer and the little fellow 
cried out and said, "Hurry papa, hurry/ ' and blood 
and foam told the story; the little fellow sank out of 
sight. When I heard that story it was so awful I 
could hardly stand the horror of it thinking, "My God, 
suppose the little fellow was my boy!" Now this is 
awful but there are influences in the world all around 
us nearly or just as bad as an alligator, tearing our 



170 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

virtue, and morality asunder; our dear girls turn up 
missing all around us; every little while we hear of 
one missing; boys led off and girls sold into slavery, 
taken and locked up in Rome's prison pens and kept 
there for years and frequently for life for mere trifles, 
mostly trumped up by that clique, and people sitting 
around playing cards, drinking and reading novels or 
splitting hairs about some fool thing; is about what 
the great majority of people are doing. " Hurry papa, 
hurry ! M 




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NOTES TAKEN FROM THE GREAT EVANGELIST, 

REV. DR. G. D. WATSONS ALLEGORY AND 

DEFINITION OF THE LAMB AND 

THE BRIDE. 



This is the most wonderful picture and the most com- 
plete definition of this wonderful event I have ever 
found anywhere. 

This is certainly as great or greater an event than 
the meeting in the air. It is so wonderful that a hu- 
man mind can hardly comprehend it as the prophets 
have given it; but here it is made plain and it will be 
a help to all Bible students. 

THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB 

And I hear the voice of a great multitude, like the 
voice of many waters, and the voice of mighty thunder- 
ings, saying Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent 
reigneth. 

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him 
for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife 



172 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

hath made herself ready. 

And to her was granted that she should be arrayed 
in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the 
righteousness of the saints. 

And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which 
are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And 
he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. 
(Rev. 19:6-9.) 

There are two women that are spoken of through- 
out the entire Scriptures. They are typical. A woman 
in the Bible always represents a religious company, 
not a nation; and there is always a church of the devil 
and the flesh, and a Church of God. 

Paul says that Hagar represents the Church in bond- 
age, under the law, and that Sarah represents the 
Church of the Holy Ghost, the spiritual Church, which 
is the mother of all spiritual children. Then there is 
a Jezebel Church which represents the bride of the 
Antichrist, or the bride of the devil. And then there 
is a Church of Zion, of the Holy Ghost, and, in Reve- 
lation, these two women reach their culmination. We 
find in the seventeenth chapter, the Church of the 
Antichrist, the Mother of Harlots, goes down in ever- 
lasting judgment and fire; and when the false woman 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 173 

has been judged and taken out of the earth, God 
brings forward the true woman, the New Jerusalem, 
the Church of which Sarah is a type, and we have 
the coronation, the exaltation, the glorification of this 
Church, the Bride of the Lamb. But in this chapter, 
there is brought before us the great climax of all the 
centuries. There never will be such a time of joy and 
ecstacyin the history of the world as that brought 
forth in this chapter. It is the crown, the culmination, 
of the history of all God's true saints in all the ages. 

There are several items I want to notice with regard 
to this remarkable Scripture. We want to notice, in 
the first place, who the Bridegroom is. This marriage 
is, "the marriage of the Lamb." The words of Scrip- 
ture are divinely chosen. They are inspired. The 
Holy Ghost picks out the words, and picks out the 
way, and the manner, and the order, in which those 
words are used. God the Father is not the Bride- 
groom. The Holy Ghost is not the Bridegroom. There 
is one Father, and one* Son, and one Holy Ghost. It is 
Jesus who is the Bridegroom, but the word used in 
Revelation is "the Lamb." Christ has many names 
and many titles in the Bible. God the father has four 
or five different names given Him, but the Son of God 



174 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

has about two hundred names and titles. He is God's 
tongue, God's mouth, God's voice, God's language, 
God's alphabet, God's revelation; and so God's Son 
has about two hundred names and titles in the Scrip- 
tures, and every time that one of those names is used, 
it is always used in a proper sense. He is called a 
Lamb ; that is the name spoken in connection with His 
marriage. There is a reason for this. It is a Lamb that 
suffers ; it is a Lamb that sheds its blood ; it is a Lamb 
that redeems the world ; it is a Lamb that makes atone- 
ment. Christ, as Shiloh, does not make the atonement; 
as the Morning Star, He does not make the atone- 
ment; as Alpha and Omega, He does not make the 
atonement. Out of all the names that He has, it is 
Jesus, or the Lamb, who makes the atonement. Those 
are the two names that represent Christ in making the 
Godhead in touch with human nature. It is the Lamb 
that gives us the incarnation, the eternal God in flesh 
and blood. It is as the Lamb, that God incorporates 
Himself with the human race, and takes our blood and 
our flesh, and dies in our stead, and makes the 
atonement. 

Who is the Bride? Here we find a great world of all 
sorts of notions — foolish, unscriptural notions. I do 
not know what your view is, but I know that the 



GREAT MEETING IN THE AIR 175 

Scriptures reveal very clearly who the Bride is. There 
are many who think that the Jews are to be the Bride. 
Many teach that the twelve tribes of Israel are to be 
the Bride. St. Paul declares that he desired to pre- 
sent the Gentile believers, as a chaste virgin, to be 
the Bride of Christ. The twelve tribes of Israel were 
God's earthly bride. He refers in Isaiah and in 
Jermiah to the Jews being an earthly bride for Jeho- 
vah; that is true, but in those Scriptures there is not 
a single reference to eternity, nor to Heaven, nor to 
the resurrection, nor to the glorified state. The Scrip- 
tures teach that the Bride is to be a resurrected peo- 
ple, a glorified people out of those who are redeemed. 
Then, a great many teach that everybody who is 
saved will constitute the Bride. That is contradicted 
by every single passage in the Bible bearing on the 
subject. A king does not marry every woman in his 
empire. Jesus does not take for His Bride all who are 
saved. And if you will take the Scriptures and search 
every single passage in the Bible referring to the Bride 
of Christ, you will see there is a distinction between 
the Bridehood saints and those who are not the Bride. 
When God made Eve for Adam, Eve, there, was a 
type of the Bride of Christ; and when He made her, 
he did not take all of Adam's body, but He took a 



176 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

rib. He did not take a bone from the foot, to be under 
Adam and trampled on as a worm, and crushed as a 
slave; He did not take a bone from the head to be 
Adam's boss and rule over him. God took a bone 
from his side, where the heart is, that she might be 
his equal, stand by his side, be on the same level — 
be a helpmate. And so God in all His ways acts with 
Divine wisdom. 

God will save millions and billions of the human 
race. A great many more will be saved than lost. It 
does not look that way to us, but one-half of the race die 
under five years of age, so they are all saved. Thus 
God gets half the race anyhow, and how many of those 
who have reached the age of accountability, die peni- 
tent, we do not know. God only knows. So there 
will be millions and billions — "great companies" saved. 

Among the saved, however, there will be many ranks 
and degrees. Not one church member in a thousand 
understands the Bible teaching on this line. People 
are astonished at the idea that there are ranks and de- 
grees. There are more degrees in Heaven than there 
are on earth. William Bramwell got a vision, one day, 
of Heaven, and He said, "The Church will be aston- 
ished to find how many ranks there are in Heaven;' ' 



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rank after rank, more than they have in England, 
more ranks than there are in society, more degrees — 
thousands of ranks and degrees among those who are 
saved, Jesus says there are degrees in hell; some have 
few stripes and some have many stripes. 

The Scriptures teach that the bride of Jesus Christ 
is a chosen company selected out from all the saved 
ones. There are certain words used in the Bible about 
the Bride. The Bride is called "The elect.' ' Nobody 
else is. The Methodist Church, and the Baptist Church 
and the Presbyterian Church, and the Calvinists, and 
the Armenians have vied for years over a mere term. 
The Word " elect' ' always refers to the Bride, or those 
who are entirely sanctified. No one is elected until he 
is sanctified. St. Peter says, "Ye are elected through 
sanctification. ' ' Paul says, "God hath chosen" in — the 
Greek is elected — "God hath elected you to holiness." 
Not a word about justification. Jesus says the elect 
are those who pray day and night. How many church 
members pray day and night? I have searched every 
passage where that word is used. It always refers to 
being sanctified or being in the Bridehood. The old 
Calvinists taught that the elect are a certain number; 
Not one could be added to it, and not one could be 



178 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

taken from it; and Oh, how the early Methodists did 
oppose that doctrine! In a sense they were both in- 
correct. It is true the elect are a certain number, and 
not one can be added to that number, and not one taken 
from it, but that does not refer to initial salvation. 
That means the Bride. There is a certain number that 
makes up the Bride, and as soon as that number is 
complete, Jesus will come. John says there are five 
ranks of the saved that he saw. First, the "living crea- 
tures.' ' They take the highest rank — four living crea- 
tures, then the twenty-four elders. Now four here is 
a typical number, because the Word says they come 
from all nations and tongues and people. And then 
a chosen company from the twelve tribes — one hun- 
dred and forty-four thousand, and hope they will be 
among that number, but they will not, for God says 
they (the one hundred and forty-four thousand) are 
Jews — Israel — the twelve tribes of Israel. "Four," 
"Twenty-four," and "a hundred and forty-four' ' — 
they are all numbered, areif they not? Now besides 
these there was a great company, millions and billions 
on billions that no man could number. Who were 
they? From all nations, and tongues and kindreds and 
peoples. Well, they are saved, but they are not 
numbered. 



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Now then, the Bridehood company is a company 
chosen from these vast millions and billions who are 
saved; and this Bridehood company must have cer- 
tain marks, certain preparations; and when we con- 
sult the Scriptures and not the theologians we will 
get the light. King David, in Psalms 45, says he saw 
the King — that is Jesus, and he saw the queen — that 
is his Bride, sitting by His side dressed in the gold of 
Ophir. Her raiment was of wrought gold. She was 
"all glorious within.' ' That is the Bride sitting by 
His side. And then he saw many honorable women. 
Who are they? Her companions — saved ones. And 
the queen of Tyre was there. Who is she? A com- 
pany of saved ones. And then virgins without num- 
ber. Who are they? Saved ones. There are com- 
panies on companies, but outranking all these there 
is one company that is the Bride. She is the elect. 
Our word "chosen" means "elect." When Jesus 
taught as recorded in the ninth chapter of Matthew, 
people came and said, "Jesus, Master, Lord, why is it 
your disciples are so happy, so full of joy, while the 
disciples of John the Baptist are so sad, mournful, have 
long faces? They fast and they mourn, and your dis- 
ciples are so happy." Jesus said, "My disciples are 
the children of the bride chamber." Nobody goes in 



180 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

there but the Bride. These are the words of Jesus. 
But millions and millions in the Church have never 
seen this truth. So, friends, the Bridehood are Bride- 
chamber saints. And all through the Scriptures we 
see that God loved the world, gave His Son for the 
world, to regenerate the world; Jesus loved the Church, 
gave himself for the Chruch to sanctify the Church. 
What for? That the sanctified Church might be with- 
out spot or wrinkle or any such thing. So Jesus, all 
down the centuries, has been searching for a company 
of saved ones to be the Bride. When Jesus went up 
on the Mount of Transfiguration, He did not take all 
the apostles. There was a selection. When He went 
up to be transfigured He took Peter, James, and John; 
they typify the elect. They were taken, and the rest 
were left. Gideon had thirty-two thousand soldiers. 
Every last man was a circumcised Jew, every last man 
was a church member — thirty-two thousand, and God 
made him divide, and he got ten thousand; twenty- 
two thousand turned back. That was one selection. 
Now God says, "Make a second selection, and you will 
get the elect.' ' He made a second selection and got 
three hundred. Do you see it? And so all through 
the Scriptures you will find that the elect is a com- 
pany chosen out from the billions who are saved. God 



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said to Moses, "Moses, the twelve tribes all belong to 
Me, they are Mine, but I have chosen Levi's tribe to be 
the first-born." (You find that in Numbers, Leviticus, 
Exodus). Now Levi was not the first-born child, he 
was the third son, but God says, "They are all Mine, 
but I will take one tribe to represent the Bride, to rep- 
resent the elect. I will take Levi's tribe. They shall 
be holy, and teach holiness, and conduct worship, ' ' and 
Levi became the tribe that was the first-born. (The 
Bride is called First-born). The First-born Church 
represents the sanctified Church, the Church selected 
out from among the saved ones, the small Church 
chosen from the big Church, the small company chosen 
from the large company. That is the first-born. So 
the Bridehood saints are the Church of the First-born. 
Paul in Hebrews says that when you get the baptism 
with the Holy Ghost — not when you are converted — 
"Ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of 
the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an 
innumerable company of angels, to the general assem- 
bly and church of the firstborn." You never come to 
the Church of the Firstborn until God sanctifies you. 
So there is a Church in a Church; there is an outer 
circle and an inner circle; and every Scripture bear- 
ing on this subject says that God has ranks and de- 



182 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

grees, a rank in a rank, a circle in a circle, and the 
inner circle is the elect. That passage that says, 
"Many are called but few are chosen," means, many 
are called, many are converted, but few get in the 
elect company. So the Bride of Christ is a chosen 
number from the billions that will get saved. 

Now, then, the Bride of Christ are those that ac- 
cept the overtures of a Divine lover. Conversion does 
not put anyone in the Bridehood; but when a soul is 
born of God, Jesus begins to court him. He goes to 
this soul and begins to pay him attention and respect, 
to woo him and court him and lay down certain prop- 
ositions to him. Will you take the narrow way? 
Will you suffer for Me? Will you do things for Me 
that other Christians do not do? John Wesley says, 
"I believe that Jesus, in some way, questions every 
child of God as to whether he will take the rugged 
way, or whether he will serve God in a general way, 
a good way, but not the highest way." And of all the 
millions who will be pardoned and saved, only a few 
will accept overtures of the Lover. The great mass of 
church members want to escape hell, and get to Heaven 
when they die. They may, but they are not the Bride. 
The Bridehood saints have their eyes on something far 



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beyond getting to Heaven when they die. Jesus 
courts every child of God, in the world, with the cross ; 
and there are nails on it; and blood on it — the way 
He courted you and me. And do you know, friends, 
millions of people will be saved that were never won 
to Jesus as His Bride by that rugged courtship. Now 
right there is where the Apostle says, "Make your 
calling" — what else? — "and your election sure." 
There it is: your calling is your conversion, the elec- 
tion is your sanctification, your place in the Bridehood ; 
and you have to make them both sure. 

"Make your calling and election sure." God elects 
and we elect. It takes two to make the bargain, and 
God's election and our election must go together. Those 
who are sanctified have yielded to the courtship of 
Jesus to be sanctified — to have the old man killed — 
cast out. The Bride of the Lamb, while here below, 
must live as He lived — must suffer, preach, pray, tes- 
tify, endure, bear, and die like Jesus. Oh the millions 
and millions who do not see this! Very few will fol- 
low Him fully, but those few make up the workers 
of Jesus. The Bridehood saints are those who are jus- 
tified, sanctified, and tried in the fire. Oh, friends it 
is a company that prefer to be like Jesus ! They would 



184 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

rather be like Jesus than anything else in the universe 
of God. 

I remember when God courted me. I remember 
when Jesus Christ talked to me for several years. I 
remember what He said, "Will you do this?" Will 
you preach the second blessing, definitely, so folks can 
understand and receive it? Will you bear reproach? 
Will you consent to give up fine appointments? Will 
you take poor appointments. Will you consent to be 
hated, and lied about, and misrepresented? Will you 
give your wife and children over to Me, to live or die 
as I say? Will you turn your health over to Me? Give 
your finances to Me? Will you use your pen to write 
on holiness, and not on philosophy? (The way I was 
doing.) The Lord talked, and talked, and talked, Jesus 
courted me; and as fast as He questioned I said, "Yes, 
Lord; yes, Lord; yes, Lord; yes. And that is the way 
he courted me. Now that is a million miles different 
from conversion. It is hundreds of leagues beyond 
justification. Multitudes do not understand it. When 
Jesus comes to a converted soul, to court that soul, to 
get that soul to enter into everlasting agreement, to 
be sanctified, to be set apart, to be one with Him, to 
share His nature, His character, His destiny — that is 



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away beyond forgiveness of sins; and the ones who 
accept , make up the Bridehood company. When you 
are justified you become a candidate for courtship. 
When you are sanctified you become espoused to be 
the Bride of Jesus. You are not married but you are 
espoused. St. Paul says, "I have espoused you, not 
married you yet. And so, after you have yielded to 
the courtship of Jesus, He sanctifies you and gives 
you the Holy Ghost; that is the engagement ring, 
now, before that, you are one of the virigins ; and there 
are millions and billions of virgins ; but in sanctifica- 
tion you are espoused ; and the baptism with the Holy 
Ghost is the seal, the bond, the earnest. That makes 
the first payment of what is to come — the inheritance. 
You know Rebecca, consenting to be the wife of Isaac, 
is God's chosen type. Eliezer represents the Holy 
Ghost, and he picked out the bride and did the court- 
ship. Isaac did not marry the whole family; he picked 
out one girl from the family — one who was willing and 
obedient. That is a point — willing and obedient. When 
she said, "I will be his wife," Eliezer took out the 
engagement ring, took out jewels of silver and of 
gold and gave to her; and that was the engagement of 
the wedding. And so when a soul gets sanctified, he 
is espoused. If the engagement is so heavenly, so 



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sweet, so glorious, what will the marriage be! If all 
your shouts, and your joys, and your zeal, and your 
fire, and your ecstacy is simply the engagement, (that 
is what it is, according to St. Paul) what will the wed- 
ding be? 

Now take another thought in this lesson, and that 
is, "The Bride hath made herself ready/ ' There are 
three words always used in reference to the Bride be- 
ing ready — justified, sanctified, and tried. Daniel 
says, "Many shall be purified' ' — the word signifies 
your sins washed away, "and made white" — that 
means sanctification, "and tried' ' — put in the fire and 
tried. Paul says in Romans, 5th chapter, first verse, 
sanctified by faith, and in the third verse, "we glory 
in tribulation also." John says three times in Revela- 
tion that the Bride was dressed in pure linen — that is 
justification, "clean" — that is sanctification, and 
"bright" — the word means dazzling, radiant. The 
Bridehood saints have the highest rank among the re- 
deemed in glory, and here, today, you can choose your 
rank. "She hath made herself ready" — justified, sanc- 
tified, and tried, — tried in the fire. It is the blood that 
washes out the dirt, but it is the hot iron that takes 
out the wrinkles. "Without spot" — that is cleansing; 



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or ' 'wrinkle' ' — that is the ironing process. The blood 
of Jesus washes out sin; but it is sorrow, suffering, 
temptation, agony, toil, long-suffering patience — it is 
fire that irons out the wrinkles. After Moses was 
saved he had to go through the fire. And Daniel, and 
the Hebrews, and Mordecai, and David, and Paul, and 
John, and Luther, and Wesley, and everybody else — 
every Bridehood saint in this world, of all nations, and 
tongues, and people, have had or will have to be tried, 
to go through fire. After being sanctified, God puts 
them under training, and they do not always under- 
stand His workings. Every Bridehood saint is bap- 
tized into His death. Just before Jesus was crucified 
He said, "I have another baptism to be baptized 
with." "What is it, Lord?" "It is suffering, it is 
Gethsemane, it is nails, it is crucifixion. I have a bap- 
tism to be baptized with." And here came the mother 
of Zededee's children saying, "Lord, won't you let my 
two sons, John and James, be your prime ministers, 
and sit, the one at your right hand and the other at 
your left?" What does that mean? It means to be 
of the bridehood saints. Jesus says, "I don't know. 
I cannot tell about that. Can they drink the cup that 
I drink?" Everyone who will have a place by the 
side of Jesus in the Bridehood has to be baptized into 



188 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

His death. And so friends, baptism means death. It 
means more than sanctification. It means a baptism 
of martyrdom. The Bridehood saints are martyrs. 
They are not all killed, but they are willing to be 
killed ; and if you are not willing to die for Jesus, you 
will not get into the Bridehood. 

The Bridehood saints have a brilliancy. They are 
like Moses. There is a light Divine in them. They are 
like Stephen. The Bridehood saints are not only justi- 
fied and sanctified, but God puts them through the fire. 
The tears you shed, the sorrows you have, the aches, 
and the pains, and the toils, and the solitude, and the 
loneliness, and the trouble, and the temptation you go 
through — these things do not wash your heart pure; 
but they iron out the wrinkles ; they put a shine upon 
your soul ; they put a whiteness and a brilliancy there. 
And so the Bride made herself ready, and she was 
dressed in clean linen — justification; in white linen — 
sanctification; and in radiant, dazzling, shining linen, 
which is the mark of suffering and sorrow. 

The time of the wedding has not come yet. The 
marriage does not take place when we are first caught 
up in the sky. Many people think that the marriage 
takes place as soon as we are caught up. In Re vela- 



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tion, chapter four, the door is opened, and John is 
caught up. He is our representative. But the Bride- 
hood saints must be judged. Every human being in 
the world must be judged; the wicked for their sins 
and the righteous for their rewards ; and God will not 
let you know the crown you will get until you are 
judged. The judgment of the saints decides what your 
reward will be. It decides your crown, the size, the 
weight, the glory of it. It decides your rank in the 
Bridehood company, it decides your place in the City 
of the living God. There is order, and method, and 
accuracy in all of God's works and ways. And so the 
Bridehood company are caught up, and they are 
judged, and the tribulation comes on the earth; and 
just before Jesus comes down to chain the devil, the 
wedding takes place, (see Chap. 19), and the hallelu- 
jahs go forth. 

Now the next thought is, the marriage. This is a 
word the Bible does not describe. The secret things 
belong to God. God has not revealed the marriage. 
He has revealed the engagement, He has revealed the 
banquet, He has revealed the bridal procession on 
white horses; but marriage with Jesus Christ is not 
revealed, except in a type. Marriage is union. It is 



190 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

where two bodies are made one flesh, or it is where the 
soul and God are made one spirit. When God made 
the Tabernacle, through Moses — Moses made it — it was 
dedicated, and when God came down in a cloud of 
glory, Moses and Aaron could not stay inside. The 
glory of God filled it. God came down and took pos- 
session of His Tabernacle. That is the only type we 
have of marriage — Jesus descending upon the 
elect saints, and being one with them, one heart, one 
mind, one thought, one joy, one grace, one beauty, one 
glory. So there will be a union of ecstasy and joy, 
and bliss, and vision, and honor, and glory beyond all 
our dreams in this world. Oh, the honor, the glory of 
having Jesus take absolute possession of our glorified 
bodies, our glorified souls! 

Now, the next thought in the lesson is, the guests who 
are invited: Blessed are they that are invited. Who 
are they? They are the millions and billions who are 
not in the Bridehood. If all the saved ones were mar- 
ried, where would be the guests? There is the Bride, 
but there are also millions and billions of guests. The 
Bible says, "The virgins her companions follow her." 
You will find that in the 45th Psalm. And so they are 
invited, all the saved ones are there. There will be 



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one crowd, one company, one banquet, one glorious 
feast ; but the guests are the millions of those that are 
not the Bride — all the infants who have died, the mil- 
lions and billions, they will all be there, our children 
who have died and gone on ahead of us, and those who 
are not the Bride will be there, every saved one will 
be there of all ages, and all generations. Oh, the sight, 
the sight, the sight ! The blue sky will have to expand, 
and great blue fields open up to make room for the 
countless millions that will be invited to that glorious 
supper of the Lamb? They will all be there! One 
company, one Heaven, one God, one Father, one Bride, 
one wedding feast, but there will be billions and billions 
that will be invited to partake of the feast who are 
not in the Bridehood. 

Now the last thought is, the Banquet, the Supper 
of the Lamb. It will be a real banquet. We will eat 
and drink. When God fed the Jews on manna, the 
Bible says He gave them angels' food. It was angels' 
food, so the angels eat. Jesus and the angels ate Abra- 
ham's dinner under the oak tree there at Beersheba. 
And Jesus ate and drank after His resurrection. And 
so the marriage supper will be a banquet, and Jesus 
says, "I will make you to sit down, and I will come 



192 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

forth and serve you/' 

Now, at the last supper, after eating the passover 
(the passover is one thing, and the last supper is some- 
thing else) Jesus passed around the bread, and said, 
"This is my body." My body is a loaf of bread, and 
I am going to break it tomorrow, and now this bread 
I break represents my body. "This is my body, my 
flesh of the new covenant/ ' And then He took the 
cup of wine and said, "All of you drink this. This is 
my blood. It is in my veins now, but I will spill it to- 
morrow on Calvary for you. I will not drink this 
grape juice now." "Why not, Lord? why you have 
been drinking grape juice ever since you were a child/ ' 
"I will not drink it now, but you drink it. I will not 
drink any more grape juice till that day when I shall 
drink it new in my Father's kingdom/ ' Away back 
in the Old Testament God said to Moses, "Moses, if 
any one wants to make a vow of a Nazarite he can do 
it." Every man is a free agent. God does not compel 
a man to make vows. In the Old Testament, under the 
law, a man could make a vow; and the Bible says, if 
a man takes a vow of a Nazarite he shall take it for a 
month, or a year, or two years, or a lifetime. Make 
your own choice. But, says God, if a man takes a vow 



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of a Nazarite, he must never touch anything that 
comes from the vine, drink no grape juice, eat no 
grapes, and dried grapes. You will find that in the 
law. A man must not take anything from the vine, 
if he takes the vow of a Nazarite. "But," says Moses, 
"When the vow expired, then he can drink wine 
again.' ■ Jesus Christ at the Last Supper took the vow 
of the Nazarite. He says, "You drink this grape juice, 
but I am going to die tomorrow, and I am going to 
take the vow of a Nazarite; and I will never taste 
grape juice till the vow has expired on the wedding 
day; and when the wedding day comes, then my vow 
will be expired, and then I will drink grape juice again 
with you in my kingdom." Oh, glory be to God for 
the sublimity, and the glory, and the sublime reality of 
things Divine ! And now everybody in the world, who 
is justified, can be in the Bridehood number, if they 
will pay the price. Let Jesus court you, make a com- 
plete consecration, and follow the Man of Galilee all 
the way, and thereby make your calling and your elec- 
tion sure. God grant that we may be among the num- 
ber, for Jesus' sake! Amen. 



194 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

THE SECOND WORK OF GRACE 
By Evangelist A. M. Hills. 

God's Holy Word was not written simply to give the 
world some elegant literature. Beyond question it is 
the noblest collection of prose and poetry that was 
ever bound together in one volume. Sir William Jones, 
who mastered twenty -eight languages and had the lit- 
erature of the world under his eye, wrote, ' 'I am of the 
opinion that the Bible contains more exquisite beauty, 
more morality, more important history, and finer 
strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected 
from all other books In whatever age or language they 
may be written/ ' But, the "King of books' ' was writ- 
ten for that end ; it was written to save our souls from 
eternal ruin. If, therefore, we can find that it teaches 
and commends to us a second work of grace, it will be 
conclusive evidence that there is an urgent need of it. 

We will begin our examination with the Old Testa- 
ment. Probably no one has ever questioned the genu- 
ineness of the prophet Isaiah's piety. His youthful 
bosom glowed with the fervor of devotion to God. 
Yet one day he had a vision of the holy God, in Sis 
holy Heaven, being adored by the holy angels, who 
reverently veiled their faces before His awful pres- 



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ence and cried, ' ' Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of Hosts ! ' ' 
He fell before the Lord and cried: "Woe is me! for I 
am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips; for 
mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts/ ' The 
vision had put him under awful conviction for holiness! 
Then the Holy Ghost fire was put upon him, and he 
was purged of sin. (Isa. 6:1-7). We venture the asser- 
tion that if that young prophet needed this "second 
blessing,' ' every preacher in this world needs it and 
should have it today. 

It was promised in Isaiah 1:25, "I will thoroughly 
pudge away the dross, and take away all thy sin," — 
the inbred sin of the heart." Malachi foretold this of 
Jesus: "He will sit as a purifier of silver, and He will 
purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and 
silver, and they shall offer to Jehovah offerings in 
righteousness." (Mai. 3:2-3.) This was the most re- 
ligious tribe of all, that continually served the Lord 
in His temple ; but God wanted them sanctified by the 
purifying fire of God. 

In the New Testament, this prophecy was repeated 
by John the Baptist: "I indeed baptize you with 
water ... He shall baptize you with the Holy 
Ghost and fire." This prophecy was fulfilled at Pente- 



196 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

cost, when Jesus baptized with the Holy Ghost fire; 
and Peter said it "purified their hearts." (Acts 15:8-9). 

Jesus said of the disciples in the upper chamber, on 
the night before His crucifixion: "The Father himself 
loveth you because ye have loved me, and have be- 
lieved that I came forth from the Father/ ' "Thou 
gavest them me, and they have kept thy word. " " They 
believed that thou didst send me." "I pray not for 
the world, but for those whom thou hast given me ; for 
they are thine ... And I am glorified in them . . . 
The world hated them because they are not of the 
world, even as I am not of the world." What a tri- 
bute to the piety of that little band of followers, from 
the Son of God Himself! Yet He prayed: "Sanctify 
them. ' ' They were then already Christians, but Jesus 
prayed that they might be sanctified Christians. (See 
John, Chaps. 16 and 17.) 

Just before Jesus ascended, His parting words to the 
disciples were: "Tarry in Jerusalem and wait for the 
promise oi the Father, which ye heard from me; for 
John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be bap- 
tized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." 
(Act 1:4-5). 

Would God give such a charge as that to unregen- 



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erated sinners? It is unthinkable. They were Chris- 
tians, and had the spirit of obedience; and they went 
into a ten days' prayer meeting, waiting on God for 
the Holy Spirit. Unconverted people would not have 
done that. They would have had a concert or a picnic 
or a dance! But these Christians held a continuous 
prayer meeting for ten days. 

And suddenly the Holy fire fell! It burned the un- 
holy ambition out of James and John. It burned the 
chronic doubting out of Thomas. It burned the fret- 
ting impatience out of Martha. It burned the cow- 
ardice out of Peter, and made him come to his own, 
and be a rock for God. It burned the timidity and self- 
seeking out of them all, so that they would henceforth 
"be one," united in the service of Christ for the spread 
of holiness in a wicked world; Oh, it burned and 
burned until it burned up their carnality and their dis- 
loyalty to Christ, and their selfishness and their pride 
of place and position, and made them sanctified, — clean, 
and pure, sweet and gentle, and Christlike ! It not only 
consumed the dross out of their beings, but the fire tar- 
ried to melt them into the Divine image and burn in 
them with the quenchless flame of Heavenly love. With 
fiery zeal they threw themselves and all their posses- 



198 JESUS IS COMING TO THAT 

sions into the one great enterprise of taking this world 
for Christ, happy even to die the martyr's death for 
Him who had died for them. It was this for which 
Jesus prayed; and the prayer was answered in regard 
to those who filled the upper chamber, and should be 
answered in all Christians. 

Deacon Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and 
preached Christ unto them. A great revival resulted, 
"multitudes" were converted, and there was much joy 
in that city. (Act 8:4-8). A genuine revival of religion 
always brings joy. But when the apostles in Jerusa- 
lem heard of the great success of Philip's ministry, 
they hurriedly sent Peter and John down to Samaria, 
that the converts might receive the Holy Ghost — the 
second work of grace. 

Cornelius was a "devout man," and "all his house/' 
His "prayers were heard," his alms "accepted," "he 
feared God and worked righteousness" and was "ac- 
ceptable to Him." But an angel told him to send for 
Peter and Peter had a vision telling him to return with 
the servants of Cornelius to Caesarea. What was this 
for? That those Italian believers might receive "the 
gift of the Holy Spirit" — the second work of grace 
(Act X.) How concerned God was about it! And 



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how He still desires all Christians to "be filled with 
the Holy Ghost !" St. Paul went to Ephesus "and 
found certain disciples," in all about twelve men. His 
first question to them was: "Did you receive the Holy 
Ghost when ye believed?" He called an altar service, 
when they told him that they had not so much as 
heard of the blessing, and he laid his hands upon them 
in prayer "and the Holy Ghost came on them." There 
are a multitude of churches now, just like that little 
church, whose members never have heard anything 
about the baptism with the Holy Spirit for heart- 
cleansing. They do not know that there is a second 
work of grace, for their pastors have never told them. 
And all the while the Holy Spirit is pleading "with 
groanings, that cannot be uttered" to be permitted to 
come into the hearts of His children with His holy 
cleansing fire to consume the dross, and littleness, and 
carnality, to clothe them power, and send them out 
equipped and panoplied for the world-wide victory. 

THE LIFE OP THE SANCTIFIED. 

By Rev. E. West. 

"I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as 

the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His 

branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the 



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olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell 
under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as 
the corn, and grow as the vine ; the scene thereof shall 
be as the wine of Lebanon/ ' (Hos. 14: 5, 6, 7.) In 
these verses we have a picture of God's own people, 
His peculiar treasure. First, we find that they are a 
pure people, for they shall grow as the lily. Their 
purity will not be dependent upon their surroundings 
but like the lily that springs from the bottom of the 
pond, pushes its way up to* the surface of the water, 
and appears in shining whiteness in the golden sun- 
light, so His people, although they may live in a 
world full of sin and wickedness, having within them 
the principle of purity which shines out in its white- 
ness, blessing and glorifying the place where they may 
be found. 

Then we find that they are a strong people, for "he 
shall cast forth his roots as Lebanon.' ' The cedar of 
Lebanon strikes its roots deep into the earth, so the 
roots extend as far below the ground as the tree tow- 
ers into the air; this is sometimes as high as seventy 
feet. Thus the Christian, planted deep in the soil of 
God's love, his roots ever striking deeper, as a mighty 
tower of strength, cannot be moved; the winds may 
blow, the storms beat upon his head but it does not 



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effect him; the greater the storm the firmer his hold. 

Third, they grow: — "his branches shall spread.' ' 
The cedar of Lebanon not only attains the great height 
of seventy feet; but is from forty to sixty-three feet 
in girth. It did not reach this size in a few years ; but 
for centuries it has been growing, growing. So the 
Christian does not reach maturity at once, but slowly, 
almost imperceptibly he grows, sometimes not con- 
scious that he is growing, indeed giving no heed to the 
process, only intent on using the life imparted to him 
from above. What a marvelous creation he is! And 
as the pigmies of this world draw near and look up, 
up to his height, and try to measure his tremendous 
girth ; finding it an impossible task, they withdraw in 
wonder, because they cannot understand his greatness. 
The cedar grows on the heights above all other 
arboreous vegetation. How like* the Christian who 
dwells in the heights of God and walks upon the high 
places ! 

Then we notice the beauty of the Christian. "His 
beauty shall be as the olive tree." The tree has a 
gnarled trunk, smooth ash colored bark, and slender 
gray-green leaves. The leaves ever changing in their 
rippling beauty, have for those most familiar with 



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them a charm that nothing else possesses. What imag- 
ery can be better descriptive of the beauty of holiness, 
as exemplified in the life of a saint of God — The Word 
says, "From glory to glory,' ' new loveliness constant- 
ly being developed by the oil of the grace of God. 
His beauty like that of the olive is rugged, giving the 
impression of vigorous growth; it is not the delicate 
beauty of the lily; but rather the tenacious representa- 
tion of life and strength as found in the trees of God : 
"The trees of God are full of sap." Our next text 
tells us: "his smell as Lebanon.' ' There is nothing 
about the Christian — one who is indeed numbered with 
His sanctified ones — that is not attractive. His life 
sheds forth a precious aroma. Ah these lives broken 
like Mary's box of ointment and filling the whole house 
with fragrance! 

Then, the effects of a life so-lived before others, what 
shall it be? Hosea tells, "They that dwell under his 
shadow shall return." The backslider will become so 
hungry for this salvation, that he will find the way to 
Father's house that he may once more be seated at 
His table and enjoy the dainties — honey, oil, wine, 
finest of the wheat, and all the others, free to every 
child of God for the taking. 



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"They shall revive as the corn." I quote from 
Clarke. " After the corn has been a short time above 
the earth, in a single spike, the blades begin to sepa- 
rate and the stalk to spring out of the center. The side 
leaves turn back to make way for the protruding stalk, 
and fall, bending down to the earth, assuming a with- 
ered appearance, though still attached to the plant 

... No one unacquainted with the circumstance, 
could entertain any sanguine hope of copious harvest. 
In a short time other leaves spring out; the former 
freshen, and begin to stand erect, and the whole seems 
to revive from a vegetative death. ' ' How beautiful and 
fitting is the figure! Not only will the backslider be 
reclaimed, but the children of God will be revived 
through the influence of this Godly life. Increased life 
and vigor will begin to be manifest in those who love 
the Lord as they are brought in touch with this sanc- 
tified soul. They "shall grow as the vine," putting 
forth leaves, and luscious fruit, not only becoming a 
thing of beauty but productiveness. And he too, will 
give forth an odor like the wine of Lebanon, which is 
especially noted for its aromatic smell. 

Are we living up to our privileges in Christ Jesus? 
Are we pure as the lily, strong as the cedar, as sturdy 



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and luxuriant in growth? Is our beauty as that of 
the olive tree? Do our lives give forth the fragrance 
of the cedar of Lebanon? Are backsliders reclaimed, 
His people revived? Is the world made better because 
we are in it. If not, it is possible that it may be. God 
tells us how all this may be brought to pass. "I will 
be as the dew unto Israel.' ' We do not need to suffer 
from drought or draw our water from broken cis- 
terns. God has promised that He will water us Him- 
self, not by means of intermittent showers, but daily 
shall His dew descend upon us, keeping us ever ver- 
dant, vigorous, and beautiful. Let us live in the place 
where continually His life may be imparted, where His 
beauty may be put upon us, and where He may be 
able to use us in helping others to a broader, full life 
in Him. 

11 Grace be unto you, and peace from him which is, 
and which was, and which is to come, from Jesus 
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first be- 
gotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the 
earth. Unto him that loved us and washed us from 
our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings 
and priests unto God and his Father ;to him be glory 
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." 



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205 



PERFECT LOVE 
By F. M. Lehman 



Lord, give us perfect love! 

Take out the dross and tin; 
Let holy fire burn false desire — 

Make pure within. 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

We need it, blessed Lord; 
Teach us to yield, and how to 
wield 

The spirit's sword. 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

To make us truly kind; 
Take from our heart the bent and 
smart— 

The carnal mind. 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

This, this we need the most; 
take us through, and save us to 

The uttermost! 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

For this the Savior died; 
Let those we win from ways of 
sin 

Be sanctified. 



Lord, give us perfect love! 

We need it all the while; 
We need this grace in ev'ry place 

And weary mile. 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

All through and through Divine; 
let Thy love from Heav'n above, 

Upon us shine! 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

That we may holy live; 
That friend and foe may ever 
know 

We can forgive. 

Lord, give us perfect love — 
Cleanse heart and head and 
hand! 
That those who grope may see 
and hope 
And understand. 

Lord, give us perfect love! 

We need this grace the most! 
Let tongue confess, let all pos- 

The Holy Ghost. 



KEEP THE MUSIC RINGING 



Keep the music ringing, 

In the trusting heart, 
Close to Jesus clinging, 

Praise will ne'er depart. 
Chiming with life's story, 

Silver tones of peace, 
To our Savior's glory, 

Let them never cease. 

Keep the music ringing, 

Let the joy notes flow 
Like a fountain springing, 

Lit with heavenly glow. 
"Sing His love constraining, 

As you pass along 
Till His knowledge gaining, 

Others learn your song. 



Keep the music ringing, 

Let it gladness bear, 
Consolation bringing 

In a world of care, 
Sing of help availing 

In the thickest fight, 
Sing of grace, unfailing 

In the darkest night. 

Keep the music ringing, 

In the house of God; 
Worship Him with singing, 

Tell His love abroad! 
In His holy dwelling, 

In the courts above, 
0, what strains arc swelling, 

Raptured hymns of love. 

— Sel. 



FAREWELL 

We must say farewell, for our paths divide, 
On the shore we stand, while you cross the tide; 
But for those who go, and for those who stay, 
There's the Lord's own presence from day to day. 

CHORUS 

Farewell, farewell, it must be well, 
We are safe in His blessed keeping; 

As forth we go, His fields to sow, 
We shall meet at the time of reaping, 

As forth we go, His fields to sow, 
We shall meet at the time of reeaping. 

Tho' we say farewell, and the partings come, 
They are only steps on the journey home; 
If we cannot gaze on each other's face, 
We may always meet at the throne of grace. 

We must say farewell, it may not be long, 
E'er we sing together another song; 
For at any moment He may return, 
Then our partings will to a meeting turn. 

We have talked together of Him we love, 
We shall better speak when we meet above; 
And shall oft recall in those glorious days, 
How we met on earth and we lisped his praise. 

May the Lord be with you and richly bless, 
May He keep you safely from all distress; 
May He cause His face on your path to shine, 
May his own sweet peace be both yours and mine. 



I certainly can recommend Brother John E. 
Brown and Brother C. P. Curry, the great evan- 
gelists of this day and age. John E. Brown is cer- 
tainly the greatest iron moral human being I ever 
met. One can see that most prominent in him in 
every way. Brother Brown started out preaching 
when 18 and he has been in the work 18 years 
and has converted more than 10,000 souls and his 
converts have converted about as many more. 
He is a most wonderful speaker. Be sure and 
hear him. Some people have gone hundreds of 
miles to hear him and Brother Curry sing. Brother 
Brown is one of the most powerful convincing 
evangelists in our present day and Brother Curry 
is one of the finest singers and teachers I ever 
heard; his plaintive voice and beautiful singing 
at the altar services and Brother Brown's preach- 
ing brought me into a higher plane of spiritual 
life. Brothers Brown and Curry are great men 
and loved by all. Go and hear them by all 
means. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



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THE LORD'S RETURN 
Seen in history and in scripture as pre-mil- 

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We can heartily recommend Dr. Godby's com- 
mentaries to all who wish to read something elo- 
quent in language that pictures out and explains 
God's plans and the interpretation of the 
prophecies that the reader will be astounded at 
his descriptive powers. Dr. Godby is certainly 
one of the greatest spiritual and godly Bible 
scholars in the present day and age of this world. 

All of his commentaries can be had at the 
Bible Institute in Los Angeles, California. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



I can also heartily recommend Dr. Whedon's 
commentaries. He takes the scriptures as they 
are and goes along and gives many other great 
scholars' opinion and lets the reader decide for 
himself by the opinions given. They are very 
good and all of Dr. Whedon's commentaries can 
be had at the Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia or M. £. Book Concern, Chicago, 111. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



REV. EVANGELIST A. M. HILLS' 

Second Work of Grace is grand and 

sublime. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



REV. E. WEST'S 

The Life of the Sanctified is certainly a 

Heavenly representation of a Life. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



REV. G. D. WATSON'S 

Definition of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb 

is a prophetic definition of this 

wonderful event. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



I wish to heartily recommend J. Wilbur Chap- 
man as he is one of the greatest evangelists of 
the present day and age. He is pleasant and 
mild in his discourses and very convincing and 
I will say to all my friends to be sure and go and 
hear him if you have to go a long distance, as it 
will pay you double for all your trouble as you 
will certainly get a blessing out of it. 

—J. J. MORGAN. 



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